Serious question/statement looking for an answer here—I don’t understand why every time an article along the line of this gets attention it makes me wonder if anyone out there is working on two things:
1. Educating the general population how the latest technologies can/are being used to affect their privacy
2. Working hard to be an independent, trustworthy part that scrutinises the government
I honestly don’t understand the general attitude of most of the comments on articles like this, particular when you are not living in a country where censorship is “okay”.
In an ideal society (in my opinion) the government would act in the best interest of the society and the government is scrutinised by a well-informed population. This is certainly not what is happening in most, if not all, countries; but seeing some of the comments on HN repeatedly that don’t go beyond “scary as” or “this is not okay” is quite disappointing and makes me wonder where else I should look for reasonable opinions sometimes.
Have we not learn anything from storeis about govermental mass surveillance programs in recent years? How about perhaps we should all sit down, think, and set standards for how to protect everyone while setting encforcabke standards for what is an isn’t okay?
I think/believe there's lack of "external stimulus" for doing that. Unless you have a channel where a big part of the audience is both intelligent and independently thinking, your message get's no traction.
Simple defences of this or that extreme get a lot of attention because anyone can understand that. Maybe it's time the average "above average brained citizen" grow up and start uniting. But then we all know what can happen to such groups, either being eradicated or hijacked by political interests.
1. Educating the general population how the latest technologies can/are being used to affect their privacy
2. Working hard to be an independent, trustworthy part that scrutinises the government
I honestly don’t understand the general attitude of most of the comments on articles like this, particular when you are not living in a country where censorship is “okay”.
In an ideal society (in my opinion) the government would act in the best interest of the society and the government is scrutinised by a well-informed population. This is certainly not what is happening in most, if not all, countries; but seeing some of the comments on HN repeatedly that don’t go beyond “scary as” or “this is not okay” is quite disappointing and makes me wonder where else I should look for reasonable opinions sometimes.
Have we not learn anything from storeis about govermental mass surveillance programs in recent years? How about perhaps we should all sit down, think, and set standards for how to protect everyone while setting encforcabke standards for what is an isn’t okay?