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RMS: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
Covalent writes "RMS describes how much surveillance is too much (hint: it's all too much) and how to combat, circumvent, and prevent future surveillance. How much of what is suggested is plausible? How much is just a pipe dream? Discuss!"
The article contains an extensive list of things we do that give too much data to centralized organization, and offers solutions to combat all of them. From the article: "The goal of making journalism and democracy safe therefore requires that we reduce the data collected about people by any organization, not just by the state. We must redesign digital systems so that they do not accumulate data about their users. If they need digital data about our transactions, they should not be allowed to keep them more than a short time beyond what is inherently necessary for their dealings with us."
Get over yourself.
No need to pay me to dislike Richard Stallman.
SJWs are the new boogeyman. -Me
I'm a lot more worried about the US's homegrown religious fundamentalists than I could ever be of the middle-eastern ones that you seem to fear so much.
For starters, there's a whole lot more of them. Most are not individually dangerous, but they are collectively doing a lot more long-term damage.
WHAT? Are you serious? How deluded can a single person be? Over 20,000 people of almost every nation and religion have been slaughtered by your peaceful middle-eastern friends since 11 Sep 2001. The absolute worst you can claim about American religious fundamentalitists, as far as terrorism goes, would be crimes against abortion facilities and workers. These crimes have been vocally opposed and not supported by over 99% of America's religious right. Adding all forms of violence (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence) to abortion providers and their buildings (terrorism) since 1977 the sum is: 4482 acts of violence. This includes: "619 bomb threats, 1630 incidents of trespassing, 1264 incidents of vandalism, and 100 stink bombs" Over half of the terrorism coming from American religious nut-jobs has been in the form of trespassing and vandalism. Only 8 people in have been murdered by American religious zealots in 35 years and 20,000 from your overly-friendly, middle-eastern, peace lovers in 12 years.
And by pointing out how disgusted with RMS' behavior you were to those females in the audience, you got mad pussy and then told all your broas about all those squirting and queefing sounds their Womens' Studies-empowred vaginas made when you were plorking them with your meat-tube?
You make me sick.