[liberationtech] Facebook & Google Fight Deepfakes

[G.W. Schulz]

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.

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.

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 8:03 AM bo0od <bo0od at riseup.net> wrote:

> old bullshit my friend , this is called social inertia:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/social-inertia.html
>
>
>
> G.W. Schulz:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > “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.
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 1:18 AM Mariette Papic <mariette.papic at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 16:31 bo0od <bo0od at riseup.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> stopped by USA corrupted laws for example? it cant be stopped unless
> ppl
> >>> awareness will reach to refuse the usage of it, and if not gonna happen
> >>> these companies will stay and puppets ppl will also keep using it.
> >>>
> >>> bottom line save yourself first then the rest will follow
> >>>
> >>> The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]:
> >>>>
> >>>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> >>>> On Monday, November 25, 2019 9:43 AM, bo0od <bo0od at riseup.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> who cares about these USA spying companies? let them fix or blow
> >>>>> themselves they are still bad because they will always seek to have
> >>>>> monopoly of everything.
> >>>>
> >>>> Because they're in more than just the USA.  It started here, but it'll
> >>> spread to everywhere else
> >>>> unless they're stopped.
> >>>>
> >>>> The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]
> >>>> PGP (new!): 4d7d 5c94  fa44 a235
> >>>> WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/
> >>>> "First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin..." --Leonard Cohen
> >>>>
> >>>
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