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U.N. Realizes Internet Surveillance Chills Free Speech
An anonymous reader writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that the United Nations has finally come to the realization that there is a direct relationship between government surveillance online and citizens' freedom of expression. The report (PDF) says, 'The right to privacy is often understood as an essential requirement for the realization of the right to freedom of expression. Undue interference with individuals' privacy can both directly and indirectly limit the free development and exchange of ideas. An infringement upon one right can be both the cause and consequence of an infringement upon the other.' The EFF adds, 'La Rue's landmark report could not come at a better time. The explosion of online expression we've seen in the past decade is now being followed by an explosion of communications surveillance. For many, the Internet and mobile telephony are no longer platforms where private communication is shielded from governments knowing when, where, and with whom a communication has occurred.'"
So they realized it, but the problem is that pretty much all the people in power want it that way, so nothing will change, no matter how many sternly worded letters and resolutions get introduced.
.. that UN can`t really do anything unless countries support it. Countries where governments are more and more interested in speech restriction so they can keep the shiny power!
This combination doesn`t exist: ETIs that know about humanity and want to see us dead. Otherwise we wouldn't exist.
It doesn't matter how much or who monitors you.
What matters is what actions are taken from the monitoring - if any.
Given that monitoring is impossible to prevent or really limit, all efforts should be made in shaming those taking bad ACTIONS based upon collected data.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
A first post means more than a sternly worded letter. At least the first post gets read and replied to.
all efforts should be made in shaming those taking bad ACTIONS based upon collected data.
To heck with *shaming* people who take bad actions with collected data need to be *punished*. And pretty severely at that.
Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.
"Information is power." This is not strictly true, but information multiplies actions` effectiveness. The more information someone has about anyone makes easier to manipulate the victim without anyone`s knowledge. Always keep that in mind.
This combination doesn`t exist: ETIs that know about humanity and want to see us dead. Otherwise we wouldn't exist.
Bruce Schneier points out one of the ways in this essay.
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"Information is power." This is not strictly true, but information multiplies actions` effectiveness
That's exactly right, but since we cannot stop the information gathering all we can work on is the other end of the lever, and to make there be some serious repercussions to others using that information as a multiplier.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
But can your weiner win a mayoral seat in NYC? That's the question, Anthony.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure." -- Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
"To me, social media is the worst menace to society." -- Recep Tayyip Erdoan, Prime Minister of Turkey
. . . what interesting times we live in . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
It doesn't matter how much or who monitors you. What matters is what actions are taken from the monitoring - if any.
What matters is what actions could be taken from the monitoring, because eventually some government somewhere will try to step over the line and take those actions.
People with unchecked power almost always abuse it; history has taught us that. So yes, it is extremely foolish not to be wary of the government, and it is even more foolish to let it spy on the people.
And just as absolutely you will not be able to prevent the monitoring.
Not necessarily. The entire government doesn't have to be corrupt from top to bottom in order for abuses to happen, and mistakes (like the government overreacting to bomb jokes and infringing upon people's freedoms) will inevitably occur no matter how corrupt the government is.
It's difficult to prevent the government from secretly monitoring its citizens, but maybe not impossible.
What you have had before was fun interesting and a start to show what kids can do if given freedom and with that freedom they WILL rise up....When you persecuted , infiltrated and incarcertated those kids ....you bring us into the light....we are not the script kiddies. We are not the dumb bearded kids living in basements and with moms....no we are YOU....look around , all walks of life , all brackets of age and wealth and of every religion or non religion ....( well except scientology but cults dont count )
We are as a associative group are of like mind and seek the freedom of all nations peoples ot live without fear of a police officer or army officer to harm them when they speak there mind....SOME speech , mostly that of hate should not be tolerated however for it is that which gives rise to the very people that have taken our civil rights and liberties. They like scientology or hitler used hate to bring you form being a individual into a hive mind so they could act for you often in ways you would abhore given more time to make your reasoning.
THE USA for all its wealth and pwer has one main problem....it has now a rank of 31 for avg math skills.its reading isn't far off. Who needs ot read or count when you have actors and musicans and army men with automatic rifles? WELL there comesa time on earth when all this violence will be seen for what it is....just old school riuch people trying to keep there status above you all like gods or kings. The USA will ahve at obama;s end of term 21 trillion in debts.
china will be getting close to passing it...have you seen the skies of its capital during the day....now think of L.A. during nixons time when enviromental movements began...
what has changed.....are you better off? ....if by the odd chance some alien space craft came here and suveyed this world what would you htink if you were them?
is there peacfe on earth.....ask your sleves this
NO really. of all the cultures on earth we hackers get this the most. WE know that race , religion and wealth mean nothing to us....we are all equal....
you cannot fight this....nor our curiosity to learn and know more.
YOUR laws of copyright and patents are going to destroy us one day....and i will cry...
The UN is absolutely not a government. The UN was established as a way of resolving disputes without wars. The UN is a set of agreements between governments on how to resolve disputes. Soldiers working for the UN are provided by member governments, and act in the voted interest of all of the government members of the UN. Aid from the UN is provided by the member governments and distributed by the voted interests of the member governments.
In concept, the UN is a good thing. In practice however, larger governments are able to abuse the platform as an excuse to do bad things just like they abuse their own powers in their home governments.
Today, we must be very cautious of the UN. Sovereign nations must remain sovereign for the UN to work, yet there is a tremendous amount of rhetoric attempting to convince people that all countries are subjects of the UN. We have seen the UN used as a shield for certain member governments to destroy sovereign governments.
To my last paragraph, you should remember that you only hear what your governments want you to hear in regards to Libya, Syria, Egypt, etc... There is another side of the story (at least one, but often more) that you don't hear. The established media, even in countries like the US, rarely presents reality. Thankfully the Internet allows you to search for information which breaks the illusion, and anyone trying to get out of the cave still can.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.