This report has very little to do with open source, it is all about marketing. The M$ board and executive team is basically treating it's shareholders the same way it treats it's customers. It is feeding them a line of non-committal B$ in order to keep their jobs and maintain a threatened share price.
So M$'s annual report is starting to bear no resemblance to what most respectable companies would produce or what an executive team with integrity would present to shareholders. It is a empty glossy pump up produced by a marketing team rather than an management and engineering team. No new directions, no new products, no new ideas, just more of ballmer's self involved blather and bull shit.
Psychologically it is interesting, hmm, we know everything, we make no mistakes, we are the computer industry, when it goes wrong, it is everybody else's fault, they stole it from us, they don't know anything and the customer is stupid when they don't realise this.
Technically it is quite true that M$ help to create the OSS movement, they were such an unreliable and deceitful supplier of software that they really did do more than anybody else to drive customers to OSS.
Pretty clearly demonstrated to have been added motivation for the political leaders of the day to endorse the patriot act, which is why they were targeted. Now which agency has had experience with drugs which will induce paranoid and suicidal behavioural patterns and supported the criminalisation of the general public as well the highly profitable privatisation of intelligence services.
Highly paid ex-agent consultants can suffer from very questionable morals and motivations and still have access to many people and facilities that they really should not. Investigation curtailed and, a possible guilt ridden witness removed. So, involved in the actual conspiracy or involved in obstructing the investigation of the conspiracy or just an easy target for a drug induced cover up.
It is still 100% subject to 'public' building and planning approval. The external of the house forms part of the built environment, the neighbourhood, which is shared by all and is subject by law to the requirements of local government with regards to appearance and structure up to including the point at which it gets demolished to make way for a new structure.
I played Crysis, is wasn't all that good and it was a passed around copy, with each person playing not liking it all that much and uninstalling it and giving it away, that weird side on figure 8 gun wobble etc, some good bits some bad bits, but somehow all just slightly off and a bit boring.
As for spore, all that endless viral marketing has put me right off, left alone the copy protection debacle. So a definite no buy, maybe in a year or two from the bargain bins.
However, more likely someone who can throw away tens of thousands of dollars suing internet trolls, is likely going to get a job via nepotism anyhow. So filing suit is simply a way of saying "I am rich and can afford to fuck you up via the courts so I will try to do so" and because they are rich they are basically free from the consequences of doing so.
As for anonymous post, just remember to clearly differentiate between opinions and statements of fact.
So for example it is safer to say, 'I think' those individuals filing suit are clearly worthless spoilt brats, with wildly inflated self opinions and are using their parents money to justify their own bloated egos, which is 'likely' why they drew those negative postings in the first place. Besides Lawyers, even lawyers in training should know better than to make false statements of fact, so really no loss if all players in this minor drama are lost to the industry.
Technically the nature of a house is not private but inherently public. It's appearance, it's internal design, it's fabrication, are all public and, public approval must be sought prior building or changing an existing structure. It is called building and planning approval.
So while I definitely do not support googles privacy invasive practices (searching, email, browsing, groups, web scanning, masquerading behind other identities), in this case there is nothing to answer. Every building whether commercial, industrial or residential is subject to public review and approval, wake up to yourselves and get over it. So in the case of the civil suit it is nothing more than a blatant grab for money.
So technically every view of a home is public, whether front or backyard, however any activity is strictly private, whether it simply be contents or the private activity of the occupiers. So stretch it all out, google can take a photo of the windows but not of the curtains or any other internal contents or activities and should blank that out or seek approval from the occupiers when it doesn't.
So in this article NYT was basically mass feeding the trolls and given them a identity, a value other than -1 troll. Basically an activity that is rather lame, boring and really done to death. What was very interesting is that NYT did not even mention marketdroids or marketing trolls, then ones paid to poison forums, hmm, didn't want to offend the advertisers.
Of course and, not try to fool myself that it is secure. All passwords and usernames for the trip only, no private messages, no silly affairs basically everything upon the basis the all digital tramissions are completely public. So buy a cheap UMPC locally that you don't mind dumping rather than bring in a more expensive unit.
Well while using publicly addressable user names and passwords doesn't really excuse what he has done, it certainly does push much closer to comment trespass. Now interestingly it is legal for US government agents to hack into any and everybody else computer anywhere else in the world regardless of the laws they are breaking in that country and they absolutely would not be extradited regardless of the damage they did.
Of course where it is blatantly obvious that the privatised penal system is corrupt and abusive in a foreign country, extradition should not be considered unless similar conditions as well as penalties form the basis of the rehabilitation process and not humiliation and sexual abuse as the prime method of gratification for low IQ security guards (by no stretch of the imagination could these individuals be considered as anything near what most socially advanced countries would call correctional services officers who form a integral part of the rehabilitation process). Especially as there are laws in the US that specifically deny foreigners any legal rights at all.
What it really does show what it really is all about to the jockstrap 'elite' 'heroes' and their representatives, show me the money, SHOW ME THE MONEY and they are deaf, dumb and blind to anything else.
However in this case the monitoring has absolutely nothing to do with censorship, it is all about espionage.
The monitoring equipment is also going to include key loggers and based upon peoples laziness, using that same user name and password all over the internet will get Chinese government espionage agents into a whole lot of places they should get imprisoned for going to.
You really have to consider the kind of people who will be going to the Olympics as spectators, their income brackets and their positions of responsibility around the globe. Basically if you go to China and log in with your regular user name and password you are a bloody idiot and personally I would not take a notebook there, but buy one on location and then sell it when I was leaving, I would certainly not bring it back, bios back doors are really annoying.
Add to that the price target also reflects all the required software built in. So it is not $100 for the hardware plus $500 worth of software, it is $100 total. So India's effort is just another part of the global push to get low cost laptops including software (not software as an after market budget bloating shock) into the hands of every child rather that tons and tons of very expensive high carbon impact dead trees.
So whether it is the first world or a rapidly developing 'ex' third world, they are all looking for the same solution. Obviously working together in an open format for the good of school children all over the globe would make sense.
Time to stop thinking of lasers as light and start thinking of them as particle cannons. So it all depends on the type of particle you a firing at the target, whether it passes right through the armour to target the components you a particularly after, or even if it actively targets the armour as part of the destructive affect.
It is all about how much energy you want to get on target, the nature of that energy and the affect you wish to achieve.
So, minimal amount of energy solution, target CPUs and get all the 0s to be 1s and those smart weapons go stupid and don't target targeting anything;D.
Oh Bull. Corporations charge the maximum possible price they can. Supply and demand, the balance between the price point and the number of units sold. Corporations do not give a rats about fair and reasonable pricing and in fact employ lots of market research people to ensure the have the the prices set at the most profitable point.
Here is a link to remember http://liberty.hypermart.net/voices/2003/Actual_Cost_Of_Making_These_Popular_Prescription_Drugs.htm. So while some Europeans are paying more for software they a paying a damn sight less for prescription drugs and for example in Australia no prescription cost me more than twenty odd dollars (and the Australia government gets major discounts via negotiations prior to any drug being list.) so the final price in Australia is because of the government 'er' screwing corporations in favour of citizens, hmm, taxes well paid;).
I may be a computer geek but I got to be thinking that police around the world will think M$ are bloody idiots. They want people concentrating on where they are going, on reading traffic signs, on watching traffic lights. You should know exactly where you are going to go before you get in the car and not be looking at your sat nav while you plough under some pedestrian at a school crossing.
They are cracking down on using mobile phones in cars how long do you think other driver distracting technological innovations will last. So either fully automated cars with their inherent insurance nightmare (M$ you will not be able to stick some bullshit EULA warranty in car automation software that blames the 'passengers' when the car 'crashes' and BSODs a bunch of school children) or, the amount of technology you will be able to stick in a car will be severely limited and in reality nothing more than say a docking point for, em, let me see, perhaps a iphone version 3;D.
Fortunately when it comes to corruption and greed, the ones at the top whilst they are 'sometimes' willing to work together when it is in their mutual intrests, in the dog eat dog part of society it is far more profitable to tear one of their own to bits rather than a nameless valueless nobody.
There are only so many positions in government and to occupy one some else has to be thrown out or prevented from stabbing you in the back to gain it, and the more corrupt it is the more you have to watch your own party let alone the opposition.
Take for example the way it appears that the VP of the US has managed to line his pockets via Haliburton and the Iraq war, how many other politicians would have liked to remove him and take his place, not for a more honest government but so that they could gain access to those profits.
So the trick is as citizens how to get the honest ones when you can or a very least get the bad ones to destroy each other in their blind rabid greed, don't let them get settled in, keep them one their toes, get them to stab each other in the back before they can do too much damage to the rest of us. The worst you can do as a citizen is to play blind party politics rather than make each and every individual politician fight for their position, you know, divide an conquer;D.
Well, perhaps rtb61 as a username was in low orbit in relation to your head. However governments all over the world are offering access to their services over the internet, as a basic function of government all services should be offered equally to all, hence the government is bound to ensure all citizens have equal ability to access public services offered over the inernet.
Haven't you paid attention to anything, or as the whole access for disabled people to internet services provided by government gone right over your head as well. You know there is one thing you can do to increase the altitude of your head, don't take a circuitous path when you want to point it at the sky, assuming of course you manage to stick it where you do while standing up;).
Now all they have to do is solve the obvious to you simple problem of scale and mass. A large high complexity, high mass droid to mars. Don't you think they would do that if they had the technology in place to be able to do so.
Well, I guess you have just never heard of a product that sells itself. A low cost drug that has a 100% success rate against cancer, seriously, I mean really seriously, do you think you would need to spend any money at all on advertising and that word of mouth from cured patients would be more than enough to sell it.
The reality is the worse the product the greater the advertising, the better the product the less the advertising. Why would you throw away money on advertising if you don't need to. Especially with the internet becoming the most powerful media format to spread the word about quality products. As a customer I do not want to be wasting my money on B$ advertising, I am the one that really pays for, noy only in higher prices but also in crap products.
An interesting point. Now would you consider stealing if people regularly lie about the quality of the goods they are selling which you can't return in order to maximise their profits. So is downloading low quality versions of content as a means by which to decide whether it is worth buying, in the face of the hundreds of millions of dollars the publishers are willing to spend in order to lie about a product and suck you into buying it, fair or unfair.
You know what is even more mind boggling about the whole farce, publishers believe they are entitled to a return on that bull shit advertising, that somehow that it is an added value product to the customers, lying to them so that they will buy crap content that they will end up disliking. Now that is what really pisses off the publishers the most, people knowing exactly how bad the content is and refusing to buy it, millions wasted on B$ advertising that everyone ignores because they have already previewed the content.
Now I can honestly say that after having watching content via a source, I have gone to the cinema to watch a higher quality version of the same content and on the flip side I have seen content so bad that whether it was free was insufficient to get to put up with. Damn, there is just so much content out there that is not even worth pirating and those free full previews (not edited excerpts of the best bits) make it impossible to sell no matter how much B$ advertising you dump on everyone.
So morale of the story, well, you make a habit about continually defrauding people with regard to the quality of the products you are selling and expect no respect for you or your product. Hell, add to that corrupting governments for your own short term greed regardless of the long term harm to society and expect people to go out of their way to disrupt your criminal activities;P.
That is ludicrous. Use of the internet is becoming a daily necessity and the lie about multiple wired services is bullshit. Yeah, you are going to have 10 different wires running down the street from 10 different companies providing competitive services, what a lie. Due to the cost of wiring and providing the infrastructure at most you will have three and most often two and sometimes one, that is the reality and perfect for cooperative cartels to exploit.
Which is why it needs to be regulated and controlled so that everyone can access it upon an equal basis, so that people are not discriminated against should they for example voice an opinion that is in opposition to communications provider which one corrupt provider already slipped into their contracts.
What the FCC commissioner is basically calling for is that they should be doing nothing, the perfect job, get paid to control nothing, regulate nothing basically just be a positive publicity spewing mouth piece for an industry they are meant to be overseeing.
Drop the idiotic lie that somehow the government is some alien authority, the government is meant to be an extension of the peoples will. A means by which the people ensure controls are in place so that do not have to fight for respect and the rights every minute of every day. Regulations are forced upon corporations in order to ensure a minimum level of acceptable behaviour is maintained, in order to prevent the corporation to use it fiscal power to destroy individuals with limited capital in court and in order to prevent corporations from arbitrarily denying people access to services.
They have the right to look at directory contents but not the contents of non=-figuration files. Looking into data files is and always will be a gross invasion of privacy. Also in countries where privacy laws are enforced, although you might be adhering to the privacy requirements of your customers, of the hosting provider you are using is not, your a liable for their failures as you choose to use them.
So if your feel your host has infringed your privacy attempt to have them prosecuted via privacy laws and see what happens. What you will often find is that managements has no interest in your data, just bored nosey smart arse weasels with nothing better to do and who management is them forced to defend or suffer the consequences.
Similar questions come to mind, aren't postmen entitled to open your letters after all they have been 'given' to them to deliver, aren't telecom companies entitled to record and monitor all your phone calls, after all those transmission are on the equipment and belong to them during transmission, especially when they can generate a profit by doing so (how quickly people forget), your doctor keeps your medical records and in fact those records are records of their own activity shouldn't they be entitled to sell them if they can generate a profit by doing so.
Of course greed will drive it, better technology will be locked up in patents, with each patent holder of each minor improvement seeking to gain unlimited profits equal to the cost of fossil fuels and when combined greatly exceeding the cost of fossil fuels, leaving this world to choke on it's own greed.
Autocracies are autocracies, they run nothing like democracies. One department, under one group of autocrats decided it would be of benefit to them to gain the Olympic games, for the own personal power and prestige. Now the Chinese governments has the Olympic games, so other autocrats are seeking ways to profit and gain power and prestige, real short term views, they will likely not get the games again in their lifetimes so now is their only chance to exploit them.
It should be clear by now that you never get prosecuted in China for corruption, you get prosecuted for losing the political power struggle and as the majority of leading politicians in China are corrupt it is an easy way of getting rid of them and periodically placating the ignorant masses, as well as overseas governments who periodically get stuck with dangerous and toxic products.
So capitalism gone completely awry, corporate power struggles and greed as a basis of government, all hiding behind a now no longer existing communist government. Which is worse, well, based upon the rapidly increasing toxic levels of pollution, basically a open air laboratory experiment, PMD profits of mass destruction, corporate China represents a greater threat to surrounding countries than communist China.
Destroying emails can also be dangerous as you only destroy half of the email for a start (the sender/receiver at the other end has the other half), having a specific policy of destroying emails makes you look guilty straight of the bat and of course in the event of dispute against the other companies record of emails you have no defence (even if they been well faked).
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This report has very little to do with open source, it is all about marketing. The M$ board and executive team is basically treating it's shareholders the same way it treats it's customers. It is feeding them a line of non-committal B$ in order to keep their jobs and maintain a threatened share price.
So M$'s annual report is starting to bear no resemblance to what most respectable companies would produce or what an executive team with integrity would present to shareholders. It is a empty glossy pump up produced by a marketing team rather than an management and engineering team. No new directions, no new products, no new ideas, just more of ballmer's self involved blather and bull shit.
Psychologically it is interesting, hmm, we know everything, we make no mistakes, we are the computer industry, when it goes wrong, it is everybody else's fault, they stole it from us, they don't know anything and the customer is stupid when they don't realise this.
Technically it is quite true that M$ help to create the OSS movement, they were such an unreliable and deceitful supplier of software that they really did do more than anybody else to drive customers to OSS.
Pretty clearly demonstrated to have been added motivation for the political leaders of the day to endorse the patriot act, which is why they were targeted. Now which agency has had experience with drugs which will induce paranoid and suicidal behavioural patterns and supported the criminalisation of the general public as well the highly profitable privatisation of intelligence services.
Highly paid ex-agent consultants can suffer from very questionable morals and motivations and still have access to many people and facilities that they really should not. Investigation curtailed and, a possible guilt ridden witness removed. So, involved in the actual conspiracy or involved in obstructing the investigation of the conspiracy or just an easy target for a drug induced cover up.
It is still 100% subject to 'public' building and planning approval. The external of the house forms part of the built environment, the neighbourhood, which is shared by all and is subject by law to the requirements of local government with regards to appearance and structure up to including the point at which it gets demolished to make way for a new structure.
I played Crysis, is wasn't all that good and it was a passed around copy, with each person playing not liking it all that much and uninstalling it and giving it away, that weird side on figure 8 gun wobble etc, some good bits some bad bits, but somehow all just slightly off and a bit boring.
As for spore, all that endless viral marketing has put me right off, left alone the copy protection debacle. So a definite no buy, maybe in a year or two from the bargain bins.
However, more likely someone who can throw away tens of thousands of dollars suing internet trolls, is likely going to get a job via nepotism anyhow. So filing suit is simply a way of saying "I am rich and can afford to fuck you up via the courts so I will try to do so" and because they are rich they are basically free from the consequences of doing so.
As for anonymous post, just remember to clearly differentiate between opinions and statements of fact.
So for example it is safer to say, 'I think' those individuals filing suit are clearly worthless spoilt brats, with wildly inflated self opinions and are using their parents money to justify their own bloated egos, which is 'likely' why they drew those negative postings in the first place. Besides Lawyers, even lawyers in training should know better than to make false statements of fact, so really no loss if all players in this minor drama are lost to the industry.
Technically the nature of a house is not private but inherently public. It's appearance, it's internal design, it's fabrication, are all public and, public approval must be sought prior building or changing an existing structure. It is called building and planning approval.
So while I definitely do not support googles privacy invasive practices (searching, email, browsing, groups, web scanning, masquerading behind other identities), in this case there is nothing to answer. Every building whether commercial, industrial or residential is subject to public review and approval, wake up to yourselves and get over it. So in the case of the civil suit it is nothing more than a blatant grab for money.
So technically every view of a home is public, whether front or backyard, however any activity is strictly private, whether it simply be contents or the private activity of the occupiers. So stretch it all out, google can take a photo of the windows but not of the curtains or any other internal contents or activities and should blank that out or seek approval from the occupiers when it doesn't.
So in this article NYT was basically mass feeding the trolls and given them a identity, a value other than -1 troll. Basically an activity that is rather lame, boring and really done to death. What was very interesting is that NYT did not even mention marketdroids or marketing trolls, then ones paid to poison forums, hmm, didn't want to offend the advertisers.
Of course and, not try to fool myself that it is secure. All passwords and usernames for the trip only, no private messages, no silly affairs basically everything upon the basis the all digital tramissions are completely public. So buy a cheap UMPC locally that you don't mind dumping rather than bring in a more expensive unit.
Well while using publicly addressable user names and passwords doesn't really excuse what he has done, it certainly does push much closer to comment trespass. Now interestingly it is legal for US government agents to hack into any and everybody else computer anywhere else in the world regardless of the laws they are breaking in that country and they absolutely would not be extradited regardless of the damage they did.
Of course where it is blatantly obvious that the privatised penal system is corrupt and abusive in a foreign country, extradition should not be considered unless similar conditions as well as penalties form the basis of the rehabilitation process and not humiliation and sexual abuse as the prime method of gratification for low IQ security guards (by no stretch of the imagination could these individuals be considered as anything near what most socially advanced countries would call correctional services officers who form a integral part of the rehabilitation process). Especially as there are laws in the US that specifically deny foreigners any legal rights at all.
What it really does show what it really is all about to the jockstrap 'elite' 'heroes' and their representatives, show me the money, SHOW ME THE MONEY and they are deaf, dumb and blind to anything else.
However in this case the monitoring has absolutely nothing to do with censorship, it is all about espionage.
The monitoring equipment is also going to include key loggers and based upon peoples laziness, using that same user name and password all over the internet will get Chinese government espionage agents into a whole lot of places they should get imprisoned for going to.
You really have to consider the kind of people who will be going to the Olympics as spectators, their income brackets and their positions of responsibility around the globe. Basically if you go to China and log in with your regular user name and password you are a bloody idiot and personally I would not take a notebook there, but buy one on location and then sell it when I was leaving, I would certainly not bring it back, bios back doors are really annoying.
Add to that the price target also reflects all the required software built in. So it is not $100 for the hardware plus $500 worth of software, it is $100 total. So India's effort is just another part of the global push to get low cost laptops including software (not software as an after market budget bloating shock) into the hands of every child rather that tons and tons of very expensive high carbon impact dead trees.
So whether it is the first world or a rapidly developing 'ex' third world, they are all looking for the same solution. Obviously working together in an open format for the good of school children all over the globe would make sense.
It is all about how much energy you want to get on target, the nature of that energy and the affect you wish to achieve.
So, minimal amount of energy solution, target CPUs and get all the 0s to be 1s and those smart weapons go stupid and don't target targeting anything ;D.
Here is a link to remember http://liberty.hypermart.net/voices/2003/Actual_Cost_Of_Making_These_Popular_Prescription_Drugs.htm. So while some Europeans are paying more for software they a paying a damn sight less for prescription drugs and for example in Australia no prescription cost me more than twenty odd dollars (and the Australia government gets major discounts via negotiations prior to any drug being list.) so the final price in Australia is because of the government 'er' screwing corporations in favour of citizens, hmm, taxes well paid ;).
I may be a computer geek but I got to be thinking that police around the world will think M$ are bloody idiots. They want people concentrating on where they are going, on reading traffic signs, on watching traffic lights. You should know exactly where you are going to go before you get in the car and not be looking at your sat nav while you plough under some pedestrian at a school crossing.
They are cracking down on using mobile phones in cars how long do you think other driver distracting technological innovations will last. So either fully automated cars with their inherent insurance nightmare (M$ you will not be able to stick some bullshit EULA warranty in car automation software that blames the 'passengers' when the car 'crashes' and BSODs a bunch of school children) or, the amount of technology you will be able to stick in a car will be severely limited and in reality nothing more than say a docking point for, em, let me see, perhaps a iphone version 3 ;D.
There are only so many positions in government and to occupy one some else has to be thrown out or prevented from stabbing you in the back to gain it, and the more corrupt it is the more you have to watch your own party let alone the opposition.
Take for example the way it appears that the VP of the US has managed to line his pockets via Haliburton and the Iraq war, how many other politicians would have liked to remove him and take his place, not for a more honest government but so that they could gain access to those profits.
So the trick is as citizens how to get the honest ones when you can or a very least get the bad ones to destroy each other in their blind rabid greed, don't let them get settled in, keep them one their toes, get them to stab each other in the back before they can do too much damage to the rest of us. The worst you can do as a citizen is to play blind party politics rather than make each and every individual politician fight for their position, you know, divide an conquer ;D.
Haven't you paid attention to anything, or as the whole access for disabled people to internet services provided by government gone right over your head as well. You know there is one thing you can do to increase the altitude of your head, don't take a circuitous path when you want to point it at the sky, assuming of course you manage to stick it where you do while standing up ;).
Now all they have to do is solve the obvious to you simple problem of scale and mass. A large high complexity, high mass droid to mars. Don't you think they would do that if they had the technology in place to be able to do so.
The reality is the worse the product the greater the advertising, the better the product the less the advertising. Why would you throw away money on advertising if you don't need to. Especially with the internet becoming the most powerful media format to spread the word about quality products. As a customer I do not want to be wasting my money on B$ advertising, I am the one that really pays for, noy only in higher prices but also in crap products.
An interesting point. Now would you consider stealing if people regularly lie about the quality of the goods they are selling which you can't return in order to maximise their profits. So is downloading low quality versions of content as a means by which to decide whether it is worth buying, in the face of the hundreds of millions of dollars the publishers are willing to spend in order to lie about a product and suck you into buying it, fair or unfair.
You know what is even more mind boggling about the whole farce, publishers believe they are entitled to a return on that bull shit advertising, that somehow that it is an added value product to the customers, lying to them so that they will buy crap content that they will end up disliking. Now that is what really pisses off the publishers the most, people knowing exactly how bad the content is and refusing to buy it, millions wasted on B$ advertising that everyone ignores because they have already previewed the content.
Now I can honestly say that after having watching content via a source, I have gone to the cinema to watch a higher quality version of the same content and on the flip side I have seen content so bad that whether it was free was insufficient to get to put up with. Damn, there is just so much content out there that is not even worth pirating and those free full previews (not edited excerpts of the best bits) make it impossible to sell no matter how much B$ advertising you dump on everyone.
So morale of the story, well, you make a habit about continually defrauding people with regard to the quality of the products you are selling and expect no respect for you or your product. Hell, add to that corrupting governments for your own short term greed regardless of the long term harm to society and expect people to go out of their way to disrupt your criminal activities ;P.
That is ludicrous. Use of the internet is becoming a daily necessity and the lie about multiple wired services is bullshit. Yeah, you are going to have 10 different wires running down the street from 10 different companies providing competitive services, what a lie. Due to the cost of wiring and providing the infrastructure at most you will have three and most often two and sometimes one, that is the reality and perfect for cooperative cartels to exploit.
Which is why it needs to be regulated and controlled so that everyone can access it upon an equal basis, so that people are not discriminated against should they for example voice an opinion that is in opposition to communications provider which one corrupt provider already slipped into their contracts.
What the FCC commissioner is basically calling for is that they should be doing nothing, the perfect job, get paid to control nothing, regulate nothing basically just be a positive publicity spewing mouth piece for an industry they are meant to be overseeing.
Drop the idiotic lie that somehow the government is some alien authority, the government is meant to be an extension of the peoples will. A means by which the people ensure controls are in place so that do not have to fight for respect and the rights every minute of every day. Regulations are forced upon corporations in order to ensure a minimum level of acceptable behaviour is maintained, in order to prevent the corporation to use it fiscal power to destroy individuals with limited capital in court and in order to prevent corporations from arbitrarily denying people access to services.
They have the right to look at directory contents but not the contents of non=-figuration files. Looking into data files is and always will be a gross invasion of privacy. Also in countries where privacy laws are enforced, although you might be adhering to the privacy requirements of your customers, of the hosting provider you are using is not, your a liable for their failures as you choose to use them.
So if your feel your host has infringed your privacy attempt to have them prosecuted via privacy laws and see what happens. What you will often find is that managements has no interest in your data, just bored nosey smart arse weasels with nothing better to do and who management is them forced to defend or suffer the consequences.
Similar questions come to mind, aren't postmen entitled to open your letters after all they have been 'given' to them to deliver, aren't telecom companies entitled to record and monitor all your phone calls, after all those transmission are on the equipment and belong to them during transmission, especially when they can generate a profit by doing so (how quickly people forget), your doctor keeps your medical records and in fact those records are records of their own activity shouldn't they be entitled to sell them if they can generate a profit by doing so.
Of course greed will drive it, better technology will be locked up in patents, with each patent holder of each minor improvement seeking to gain unlimited profits equal to the cost of fossil fuels and when combined greatly exceeding the cost of fossil fuels, leaving this world to choke on it's own greed.
Autocracies are autocracies, they run nothing like democracies. One department, under one group of autocrats decided it would be of benefit to them to gain the Olympic games, for the own personal power and prestige. Now the Chinese governments has the Olympic games, so other autocrats are seeking ways to profit and gain power and prestige, real short term views, they will likely not get the games again in their lifetimes so now is their only chance to exploit them.
It should be clear by now that you never get prosecuted in China for corruption, you get prosecuted for losing the political power struggle and as the majority of leading politicians in China are corrupt it is an easy way of getting rid of them and periodically placating the ignorant masses, as well as overseas governments who periodically get stuck with dangerous and toxic products.
So capitalism gone completely awry, corporate power struggles and greed as a basis of government, all hiding behind a now no longer existing communist government. Which is worse, well, based upon the rapidly increasing toxic levels of pollution, basically a open air laboratory experiment, PMD profits of mass destruction, corporate China represents a greater threat to surrounding countries than communist China.
Destroying emails can also be dangerous as you only destroy half of the email for a start (the sender/receiver at the other end has the other half), having a specific policy of destroying emails makes you look guilty straight of the bat and of course in the event of dispute against the other companies record of emails you have no defence (even if they been well faked).