Quote: (03-07-2017 02:26 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
The sheer scope and malevolence of this spying operation is absolutely staggering.
It was
exactly what I expected.
My IT Nerd mate didn't understand 18 months ago why I told him to keep the television he was setting up for me unconnected from the Internet.
He thought I was even crazier for going back to a non-smart phone over a year back, because I didn't trust Apple or Google.
It's why I don't have gmail.
It's why I don't Skype, except with close family members, and even then, I'd rather not.
It's why I have tape over my camera and a non-working mic in the computer.
Quintus: remember ages back how I said I didn't want to download and use Whatsapp, Instagram or Facebook, and didn't want to use Patreon or Kickstarter?
Silicon Valley has always been our enemy, and the gradual detechification of my life has been only positive. Most of the people I know have been zombified into uselessness by their constant reliance on it.
This goes back to what I've said about not wanting to use the tools of the enemy.
I find it interesting all this is now being allowed to come out, because its an attack on Silicon Valley and the Technology community, most of whom are viciously anti-Trump. Ages back in a thread on Gamergate, I spoke how Jonathon McIntosh struck me as an Anti-Authoritarian Marxist (in San Fran Speak, a 'Mental Environmentalist'), where his goal was to make people question their relationship to technology so that they unplug from the relationship completely.
In the Globo-Socialism vs Nationalism War I suspect is happening, I theorised the Nationalist Side could have lasting control over a populace by offering them Freedom, Prosperity, Safety, Family and Faith. They're anti-authoritarian - Trump wants Small Government - and, as such, connections between humans can only be strengthened by them discouraging the use of Silicon Valley style technology. I expect an 'unplug' message to be part of the change.
Things are really accelerating. Not long now.
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