<div dir="ltr">Thank you Marc<div><br><div>the point you bring up is a bit of dilemma</div><div><br></div><div>Privacy for me is about data that I dont want to be public, but does not apply to</div><div>my opinions when I air them in public, that I dont want to be covered by privacy</div><div>although yes, I do not want others to manipulate and misrepresent what I writea or say</div><div>but thats another story</div><div><br></div><div>Someone will always try to hijack and damage others because they were brought up</div><div>in a society that functions by hijacking and hurting others, your loss my win kind of thinking</div><div>has motivated the evolution of societies for thousands of years..</div><div><br></div><div>It does not matter though if the messages are archived or not, accessible or not, as far</div><div>as the lynching is concerned, they ll find a way to lynch you even if the messages are not archived</div><div><br></div><div>In fact, they ll fabricate private messages that cannot be verified and hire people to lie about you just to mob you in other ways</div><div><br></div><div>In that sense, having messages in the open for public scrutiny means that anyone could verify what</div><div>was said, and expose the intentional misrepresentation de-contextualization and the manipulation for the deliberate purpose of putting the messenger in a bad light.</div><div><br></div><div>I am all for sticking to the right to say what we have to say, and learning how to deal with deliberate</div><div>targeting of the folks who say what they have to say. We need to continue to build civil society. and pay the price for doing it</div><div><br></div><div>To instil fear and to injure who are not afraid of free speech is ultimately what they want, we need to learn and teach civilization. Long way to go, it seems</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PDM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 7:34 AM Marc Sunet <<a href="mailto:msunet@shellblade.net">msunet@shellblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>It's a good one, here is a related one that talks about the
social effects:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.socialcooling.com/" target="_blank">https://www.socialcooling.com/</a></p>
<p>To me, part of the problem is that online communications are
constantly creating a permanent record, like Snowden puts it. This
list, for example, should really be regarded as private, a
conversation with the liberation folks. But it's actually public
by virtue of having an eternal record of everything said here made
available on a discoverable part the Web. Any joke, criticism or
statement can then be taken out of context and copy-pasted
somewhere else; in the worst case, this results in a public
lynching of the author. The lack of privacy then leads to a
chilling effect, to self-censorship; every word must be carefully
measured, even the email address you send this from and other
metadata must be considered.<br>
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<p>On the other hand, if the mailing list record just
self-destructed after a while (Signal does this with messages),
then the problem would not be as bad. Copy-pasting something out
of context and lynching the author would now have to be a targeted
attack as opposed to something you can do retroactively any day
and any time. Most people would not bother unless you were a
high-profile target. The same arguments Snowden makes about the
NSA collecting a permanent record to then retroactively find crime
as opposed to looking for evidence for an existing investigation
apply to online social communication just as well.<br>
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<p>There is of course value in making the list publicly available to
build community, provide a learning resource and so on, so
automated self-destruction seems like a good balance and default
to me. Things become semi-private, or semi-public; words are
written on sand instead of stone.<br>
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