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Qwest Plan Stirs Protest Over Privacy
gilroy writes: "The New York Times has an article (free registration required) about customer reaction to a recent mailing by Qwest. Although the mailer only describes their privacy policy as it currently exists, apparently it's caught a few people by surprise." This hit David Farber's IP list a few days ago: see the original message or the follow-up. As Brett Glass accurately notes, most people believe that information about who they call is protected by law.
Look at this instead, no registration required!
"United States" is a corporation separate from the corporation known as "United States of America" and the Internal Revenue Service, aka IRS, started out as a donation way back during World War 2. The IRS was taken to court with a "Afidavit to deny the existance of a corporation" and the IRS representative could not confirm the existance of the IRS as a corporation. We don't have to pay the IRS anything because it is not part of the "United States of America" government, but works closely with the "United States" government to force people to pay income tax. The coporation "United States" is invested into by countries around the world and it has violated Article 13 of the Constitution. However, ever since the corruption, we "United States of America" citizens don't have a Constitution anymore and that means without our first and second ammendments, we are all slaves such Great Britain kept us yonder over 226 years ago. We pay more taxes today and no longer can do anything about it. I think it is time for a revolt.
I recommend assassination.
I'm serious. This is what the Revolutionary War was fought over, really--people wanting to get away from an all-controlling government (or in this case, an all-controlling media conglomerate). I say we start picking off the heads of corporations that do these kind of things as examples--they'd probably stop pulling this bullshit pretty quickly if we did.
It's either this, or let Big Brother step in, really. Gotta move before they trap you.
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I'm not a real anonymous coward, I just play one on TV.
Don't even bother reading the original posts about this article. I did, and like usual here on Slashdot, someone writes in screaming his head off in a panic about his "rights" are being violated and how much of a victim he is.
Qwest's policy was not only given in plain english to its customers, but it also gives you the ability to inform yourself further on the issue. If you don't, its your fault. Speaking of the issue, it really isn't one. All Qwest is doing is telling you that they will be sharing meaningless information like wether or not you have Caller ID or (gasp) Touch-Tone Service installed WITH OTHER BRANCHES OF QWEST. Nowhere in the original document does Qwest claim that its going to sell or otherwise share your information with parties you have not agreed to. When you set up your phone service, you give Qwest your personal information anyway. They're just sharing it within the different branches of the company, and why shouldn't they? If they really wanted to get into selling your info to telemarketers, dont you think they would have started doing that YEARS ago?
Take off your tinfoil hats, kids. The Qwest boogeyman isn't trying to send you evil messages through your television. And, in the future you might be better served to THINK, then react --- Not the other way around.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
Amazing! Two moderators have modded me down as offtopic without reading my post!
/. have to be much more obvious.
Maybe my joke is lame and unsuccessful, okay. But how can a joke about selling lists of phone calls be offtopic in a discussion about selling lists of phone calls?
Perhaps jokes on
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
What we really need is decent privacy legislation so that we don't have to opt out of these things.
I mean no offense, but whenever I hear the phrase, "What we really need is... legislation," it makes me want to head for the hills. Society is obviously teetering on the brink of collapse when people can say things like that with a straight face.
and we'd need a corporation with a lot of money to get us an exemption from the law like that.
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LOL! Mod parent up!
I thought it was a good joke
Thanks.
Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach him how to fish, and though he'll eat for a lifetime, he'll call you a miser for not giving him your fish.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.