<div><div dir="auto">I get it. I don’t comment often. I usually just watch you all argue and then try and figure out how to translate what you’re saying for general news audiences that are not this one. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Preaching to the choir about Facebook and Google’s data-handling practices on Liberationtech is almost as old as my dear, sweet mom’s complaints about my cigarette smoking.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 8:03 AM bo0od <<a href="mailto:bo0od@riseup.net">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">old bullshit my friend , this is called social inertia:<br>
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<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/social-inertia.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/social-inertia.html</a><br>
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G.W. Schulz:<br>
> I’m not going to look at my dear mom across the kitchen table and tell her<br>
> she’s an idiot, sheep, or puppet, because she’s intimidated by tech and the<br>
> seemingly endless privacy and security opinions but uses digital<br>
> technologies anyway.<br>
> <br>
> My mom understands that she has a digital identity now. But she will likely<br>
> never fully understand what a VPN does. She thought I broke her new TV when<br>
> I connected it to the internet, even though she already streams. She<br>
> doesn’t understand why she can’t call up music on her Alexa, despite having<br>
> a Prime account. All of this is okay. My mom raised six kids, and now has<br>
> six grandkids. We’re talking about a perfectly intelligent person here.<br>
> <br>
> “Don’t Be Evil” means working harder to enable people like my dear mom in<br>
> Oklahoma to take advantage of these technologies without having to follow<br>
> the Liberationtech listserv just to know how to protect herself online<br>
> while she’s checking out pics and videos of her family.<br>
> <br>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 1:18 AM Mariette Papic <<a href="mailto:mariette.papic@gmail.com" target="_blank">mariette.papic@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> I agree that awareness is everything. People are not aware of themselves<br>
>> as cyber beings and that schism between reality and perception fuels many<br>
>> underlying expressions of overwhelm and apathy.<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 16:31 bo0od <<a href="mailto:bo0od@riseup.net" target="_blank">bo0od@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> 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>
>>><br>
>>> bottom line save yourself first then the rest will follow<br>
>>><br>
>>> The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br>
>>>> On Monday, November 25, 2019 9:43 AM, bo0od <<a href="mailto:bo0od@riseup.net" target="_blank">bo0od@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> 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>
>>>><br>
>>>> Because they're in more than just the USA. It started here, but it'll<br>
>>> spread to everywhere else<br>
>>>> unless they're stopped.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]<br>
>>>> PGP (new!): 4d7d 5c94 fa44 a235<br>
>>>> WWW: <a href="https://drwho.virtadpt.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://drwho.virtadpt.net/</a><br>
>>>> "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin..." --Leonard Cohen<br>
>>>><br>
>>><br>
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