Author of the article here. I agree, that's not a great sentence. An editor put that in an attempt to define what the Dark Net is to readers. I missed it when re-reading it. My excuse is that this is like 5000+ words and I had just spent hours getting through everything and putting it together. To the editor's credit, he was also working long hours late at night to get this out today, so I don't blame him either.
So let me reiterate that yeah, I think that's a poor definition that unnecessarily casts anonymity it a bad light. Anyone who reads other stuff I've written about privacy knows that's not how I feel. Sorry!
So all the people who regularly point out how much "better" a society Sweden is than the US, either have to:
- entirely backtrack
- agree that domestic surveillance really ISN'T that big a deal
- just be hypocrites.
(grabs some popcorn)
OK, let's start discussing!
"That Wal-Mart smiley face is looking pretty evil now that Allen Varney has explained how much influence they have on virtually every modern game."
If it took that for you to think twice about Wal-Mart, we've got a problem.
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Author of the article here. I agree, that's not a great sentence. An editor put that in an attempt to define what the Dark Net is to readers. I missed it when re-reading it. My excuse is that this is like 5000+ words and I had just spent hours getting through everything and putting it together. To the editor's credit, he was also working long hours late at night to get this out today, so I don't blame him either. So let me reiterate that yeah, I think that's a poor definition that unnecessarily casts anonymity it a bad light. Anyone who reads other stuff I've written about privacy knows that's not how I feel. Sorry!
i can see where this is going, too. knowing slashdot, that will be the headline the day it goes live.
well, yeah that's the joke :) that exact message was posted in the thread about Swedish spying. Just pointing out how ridiculous it is.
So all the people who regularly point out how much "better" a society Sweden is than the US, either have to: - entirely backtrack - agree that domestic surveillance really ISN'T that big a deal - just be hypocrites. (grabs some popcorn) OK, let's start discussing!
"That Wal-Mart smiley face is looking pretty evil now that Allen Varney has explained how much influence they have on virtually every modern game." If it took that for you to think twice about Wal-Mart, we've got a problem.
This is a complete shock. Really.