John Perry
John Perry
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Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.
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The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.
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The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
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Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.
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The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.
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It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.
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The government targets 'Anonymous' for the same reason it targets al-Qaida - because they're the enemy.
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Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
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They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
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The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
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If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.
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But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable