<div><div dir="auto">I’m not going to look at my dear mom across the kitchen table and tell her she’s an idiot, sheep, or puppet, because she’s intimidated by tech and the seemingly endless privacy and security opinions but uses digital technologies anyway. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My mom understands that she has a digital identity now. But she will likely never fully understand what a VPN does. She thought I broke her new TV when I connected it to the internet, even though she already streams. She doesn’t understand why she can’t call up music on her Alexa, despite having a Prime account. All of this is okay. My mom raised six kids, and now has six grandkids. We’re talking about a perfectly intelligent person here.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">“Don’t Be Evil” means working harder to enable people like my dear mom in Oklahoma to take advantage of these technologies without having to follow the Liberationtech listserv just to know how to protect herself online while she’s checking out pics and videos of her family.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 1:18 AM Mariette Papic <<a href="mailto:mariette.papic@gmail.com">mariette.papic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I agree that awareness is everything. People are not aware of themselves as cyber beings and that schism between reality and perception fuels many underlying expressions of overwhelm and apathy.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 16:31 bo0od <<a href="mailto:bo0od@riseup.net" target="_blank">bo0od@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">stopped by USA corrupted laws for example? it cant be stopped unless ppl <br>
awareness will reach to refuse the usage of it, and if not gonna happen <br>
these companies will stay and puppets ppl will also keep using it.<br>
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bottom line save yourself first then the rest will follow<br>
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>> who cares about these USA spying companies? let them fix or blow<br>
>> themselves they are still bad because they will always seek to have<br>
>> monopoly of everything.<br>
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