Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 13, 2013 @09:40AM from the privacy-and-private-are-not-unrelated dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Some journalists ran into Steve Wozniak at the airport and asked him about iOS 7 and PRISM, where he made an interesting comparison about how the US is becoming what it once feared most. In communist Russia 'you couldn't own anything, and now in the digital world you hardly own anything anymore (YouTube video). You've got subscritpions and you already said ok, ok, agree and you agree that every right in the world belongs to them and you got no rights and anything you put in the cloud, you don't even know,' says Woz. 'Ownership was what made America different than Russia.'"

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Re:As usual, Woz proves to be the guy who knows. by LVSlushdat · 2013-06-13 10:29 · Score: -1, Flamebait

For all its flaws and mistakes the U.S. was nothing like the Soviets, not even close, not even now.
I agree, its nothing like the USSR *now*... Give Obama and his ilk free reign and in the VERY near future, that "not even close" will suddenly not be true any longer

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THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
Re:As usual, Woz proves to be the guy who knows. by FlyHelicopters · 2013-06-13 20:41 · Score: -1, Flamebait

A great number of those "American Indians" were not actually in "America" at the time they were killed. Something to consider...