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Cognitive Dissident: Interview with John Perry Barlow

Posted by timothy on from the always-good-to-listen-to dept.

Bob Hellbringer writes "Mother Jones Magazine has an online interview with John Perry Barlow of the EFF, on the things that all slashdotters love: 'the Total Information Awareness project, online activism, file sharing, and the prospect of a digital counterculture.'"

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  1. Re:speak for yourself by Jus+ad+Bellum · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Ok, This is a slightly off topic but I find it keeps coming up in these posts and I would like to clarify.

    The USA holds 5% of the worlds population. 95% of the world are not citizens of the USA.

    The assumption that bothers many people I know is that they are labeled with an Anti-Americian title whenever they disagree with what the leaders of the USA have to say right now about gov't, economic, and moral issues. A lot of people in the outside USA world have a democratic form of gov't, and when the USA leaders and some very right wing people from the USA try to enforce issues as above it is seen as a direct insult. How are the people supposed to react when the leader of a small minority of people in the world directly insult them? Roll over and say "Sure thing boss"?

    This is a larger problem then is given address. If the USA wants to implement a system of total observation on it own people -fine-, an issue for that 5% of the worlds population to deal with. But when it comes to a technology that contains the information that is not limited to the USA and contains the secure information of people of another soverein nations then it is a larger issue and one of global concern.