I saw this comic awhile back, and thought I might share it.
Boundaries, I ask? Just how free do you like your freedom of information? Intellectually, I'm all for it, at least on the levels of government and industry. Personally, I like a little secrecy from time to time. You know what I do? I don't publish everything about myself online. That seems to help.
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ReplyDeleteA quote from Assange from the Q&A he did with the Guardian a few weeks ago:
ReplyDelete'The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. In states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. The attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade.'
That is the real nature of the wikileaks project - to discover the limits of free speech. They're doing a pretty good job of it I reckon.
I don't know how valuable, or useful, our information is on a personal level. I do understand that Tesco is watching my every move. Eh? I've had some cough medicine tonight. The drowsy kind. I will return with less stupid points. Maybe!
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