03-09-2018, 10:06 PM
I'm not sure most people who claim to be conservatives understand that personal freedom requires taking personal responsibility for their situation. Based on the lack of engagement garnered on Gab by my posts regarding the push for an Internet Bill of Rights, it appears the same kind of circle-the-wagons groupthink that the left uses to exclude differences in opinion has infected the right. Here's my latest rant / thread there.
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Me: What other IBOR is Q talking about, if not the one proposed by AT&T?
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Cosmo: Q responded to this in another post. AT&T has nothing to do with the creation of the IBOR- that's our job:)
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Me: Fine. I've given tons of suggestions on how to fight back in other posts, but it seems most people want the government to solve the problem for them.
I'm gonna go do something else for awhile. :)
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Two days later...
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Cosmo: How would you propose protecting our online privacy & stopping companies from data mining us when we use their service without a law that prohibits it?
#MAGA #Q
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Me: Browser plugins. They can't track you if your browser refuses to accept tracking content.
As for voluntarily giving them all of your personal information, people should know better. They used to, before Zuckerberg came along.
What has C-3PO said in every Star Wars episode for the last 40 years?
"How many time have I told you not to trust a strange computer?"
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Cosmo: It doesn't stop the data mining- read my post on Michael McKibben and you'll see how deep the rabbit hole goes!
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The post Cosmo refers to above contains links to a melodramatic video and blog by a man who claims to have invented social media, and that his patented technology has been stolen by the deep state and implemented by Facebook, Google, et al. I had already researched the patent and McKibben's claims.
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Me: (1) McKibben's emotional appeal in that video and blog is rehashing what we already know (or suspect) about the deep state and its motives.
A jury found Leader's patent overly broad and unenforceable. I've read the patent and still can't figure out what was so novel that it warranted a patent.
(2) Whether or not Leader "invented social media" is moot. Someone would've invented it anyway. It's a rather obvious evolution of prior art.
If you don't give them your personal info, and they can't build a profile on you by following you around online or via smartphones and other gadgets, then what data mining methods are we talking about, exactly?
(3) I'm not denying the problem exists or that it needs to be addressed. Just trying to discover exactly how it's being done.
* Citizens who don't understand guns are asking politicians who don't understand guns to ban guns.
* Non-techies are asking non-techie politicians to regulate technology.
We need to understand a problem before we can solve it.
(4) Very few of the people complaining about censorship are willing to put their money where their mouths are by:
* abandoning the platforms that censor and spy on them.
* decentralizing the Internet by building their own online communities.
Seems to me everyone got addicted to the freebies over the last 25 years and don't want to give them up.
(5) Some form of government regulation may very well be required to combat the invasiveness and censorship.
However, as a conservative, I'd prefer to exhaust every private means at my disposal before turning to the government.
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*CRICKETS*
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Me: What other IBOR is Q talking about, if not the one proposed by AT&T?
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Cosmo: Q responded to this in another post. AT&T has nothing to do with the creation of the IBOR- that's our job:)
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Me: Fine. I've given tons of suggestions on how to fight back in other posts, but it seems most people want the government to solve the problem for them.
I'm gonna go do something else for awhile. :)
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Two days later...
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Cosmo: How would you propose protecting our online privacy & stopping companies from data mining us when we use their service without a law that prohibits it?
#MAGA #Q
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Me: Browser plugins. They can't track you if your browser refuses to accept tracking content.
As for voluntarily giving them all of your personal information, people should know better. They used to, before Zuckerberg came along.
What has C-3PO said in every Star Wars episode for the last 40 years?
"How many time have I told you not to trust a strange computer?"
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Cosmo: It doesn't stop the data mining- read my post on Michael McKibben and you'll see how deep the rabbit hole goes!
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The post Cosmo refers to above contains links to a melodramatic video and blog by a man who claims to have invented social media, and that his patented technology has been stolen by the deep state and implemented by Facebook, Google, et al. I had already researched the patent and McKibben's claims.
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Me: (1) McKibben's emotional appeal in that video and blog is rehashing what we already know (or suspect) about the deep state and its motives.
A jury found Leader's patent overly broad and unenforceable. I've read the patent and still can't figure out what was so novel that it warranted a patent.
(2) Whether or not Leader "invented social media" is moot. Someone would've invented it anyway. It's a rather obvious evolution of prior art.
If you don't give them your personal info, and they can't build a profile on you by following you around online or via smartphones and other gadgets, then what data mining methods are we talking about, exactly?
(3) I'm not denying the problem exists or that it needs to be addressed. Just trying to discover exactly how it's being done.
* Citizens who don't understand guns are asking politicians who don't understand guns to ban guns.
* Non-techies are asking non-techie politicians to regulate technology.
We need to understand a problem before we can solve it.
(4) Very few of the people complaining about censorship are willing to put their money where their mouths are by:
* abandoning the platforms that censor and spy on them.
* decentralizing the Internet by building their own online communities.
Seems to me everyone got addicted to the freebies over the last 25 years and don't want to give them up.
(5) Some form of government regulation may very well be required to combat the invasiveness and censorship.
However, as a conservative, I'd prefer to exhaust every private means at my disposal before turning to the government.
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*CRICKETS*
