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badforthefish

Fish Rant - Purity Control

Jul 19, 2014 20:51

Privacy no longer means a thing on the Internet. Whatever you do on the web can and is monitored, controlled, analyzed, categorized and easily referenced. Describing yourself as a 'private person' means shit if you're online. The platforms we use know exactly who we are, our likes, dislikes, where we travel, how long we stayed there, how many ( Read more... )

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foxestacado July 19 2014, 21:00:00 UTC

Your thoughts on the Cold War reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend from another part of the world. It made me realize that there are people who don't believe the fears about the Cold War and nuclear war were real, but manufactured in order for certain countries to proliferate their nuclear agendas.

I am reminded that access to information was a barrier, but today, it seems like even with our levels of access to information, we can't tell what is true and what is not. And the world barely shrugs sometimes.

badforthefish July 22 2014, 15:27:55 UTC

Oh, I'm sure a lot of it was propaganda. And it worked, just look at all the French nuclear testing.

I know, it is more and more difficult to find non biased sources of information. You have to check several news sources before you can even hope to get part of the real picture.

hankmoodyblues July 19 2014, 22:42:02 UTC

Far too many people put far too much personal information online, often without truly realising who has access to it. Information restricted to 'friends only' is still going to be accessible to a person or organisation that really wants to find it. And we're also being monitored by GPS and bank accounts. Nothing about us is really secret anymore.

As you said, the Internet is both brilliant and dangerous. As foxestacado said, there's plenty information out there but how much is fact and how much is fiction is debatable. All I know is that in recent years I've withdrawn massively from the online world. I'm still on it every day but I don't post anywhere near as much as I used to, simply because I don't want people, governments, knowing my every move and thought.

If men in black now take me away during the night, know only that you were right!

badforthefish July 22 2014, 15:31:56 UTC

*squints* Is that an unmarked helicopter I see on your lawn?

Word.

I am careful, but not to the point where I watch my back all the time. I'm too much of an Internet junkie.

themooselet July 20 2014, 11:29:44 UTC

Nothing clever to say, but you are very, very right, and it is scary, the power we are giving to big organizations just for a few freebies.

badforthefish July 22 2014, 15:37:08 UTC

I guess the lesson is: "nothing is EVER free on the Internet." As soon as you sign up somewhere you are giving valuable info about yourself. It is pretty creepy.

tigress1313 July 21 2014, 10:43:04 UTC

There are many of us Americans FIGHTING against the system and my husband and I are 2 of them. We already knew the gov't was spying on us before Snowden blew the whistle.

The Syndicate from the X-Files is a real thing except they are the rich families than run the ENTIRE WORLD. I never knew any of this stuff until my hubby started pointing things out to me.

What worries me the most is the fact that Americans are trying to be disarmed....if that happens...watch out....that's how all the dictators started...disarm the citizens, make them helpless and then TAKE OVER completely because they are unable to defend themselves.

The gov't can spy on me all they want. I'm a family gal who loves her family, loves her God, and loves her guns and freedom.

Sometimes the world reminds me of the graphic novel/movie V for Vendetta...the gov't is slowly killing us and dumbing us down so we are like sheep.

badforthefish July 22 2014, 15:55:50 UTC

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tigress1313 July 22 2014, 18:25:24 UTC

I used to be a Wiccan/Pagan, Tree hugger, pacifict hippie myself. Until I got married, had children, paid taxes, grew up and had to pay off college loans then I became a conservative. The Christian part happened when I was 33. I'm actually still a tree hugger ( ... )

tigress1313 July 22 2014, 18:25:45 UTC

By the way....I can't wait to have the baby so I can actually go target practice. It's just target practice for me it's a date night for hubby and I. Not every American is a wack job that let's their children play with guns.

::steps off soap box::

*rant over*

PS I still love you....just giving you some education :D