Nanny
State: One regulation away from
total bliss
The
Police State
Tools For Evading Government Control
No,
not anti-drone lasers. Sigh.
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With the
Internet playing an ever-greater role in disseminating information and
connecting political opponents of authoritarian regimes, governments
with a taste for deterring the same are stepping up surveillance,
efforts to control access to inconvenient facts and opinions, and
attacks on the Web presence of the opposition. As we all know, even
officials in the land of the free have a taste for online snoopiness.
So what an appropriate moment for Internet giant Google to step forward
with new tools intended to help online users escape surveillance and
control, and to deliver their messages even when under cyberattack by
the authorities.
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Thyssen’s
legacy remains equivocal. An early supporter of Hitler, the
industrialist was also one of the first to break with the party. It
would be another four years before other high-ranking Nazis became
disillusioned with Hitler’s suicidal military blunders and tried to
kill him with a bomb in July 1944.
Like
many of you, I have fretted over Google's access to too much
stuff. Like every G-mail ever sent; every word ever posted on the
Interwebs; every public record and every secret that even governments
don't want revealed. On top of that, Google have noticeably
close associations with
Liberals and Democrats. Sites like DAILY KOS
have been able to game the way Google searches display answers, and
only after public furors are things (nominally) changed. This is
a big deal when Joe Sixpack Googled "Sarah Palin" in 2008, and
got a first page of anti-Palin links.
Anyway, my first thought on reading Google
LaunchesTools For Evading Government Control was, "Maybe
Larry Page and Sergey Brin will play Fritz
Thyssen to
America's Democrat Party.
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Google is not your friend. If anything the new product will be used to gather more information and connect more dots useful to our Masters. B-52 them out of existence now while it's still possible.
ReplyDeleteiri's spot on. Best way to get some anonymity online is with Tor - https://www.torproject.org/
ReplyDeleteI'm looking at the possibility that Google, like certain German industrialists who financed Hitler, only to turn on him when they came to grips with who he was, will see the light and use their power and influence for the good guys.
ReplyDeleteAnd on a personal note, when I published C&S from my own server (Terpsboy) I was hit with a DNS a couple of times. How sweet if I could have immediately traced the originator location. I swear, I'd have flown anywhere and done things. Or paid someone.
You know that if you click on the link labeled: "Google LaunchesTools For Evading Government Control " they will record every keystroke, you IP, your mothers maiden name, the name of your first pet, first car, high school, fathers middle name, etc.
ReplyDeleteIt's a trick, I tell you!
I don't think Sergei & Brin are 'being nice' any more. They sold out like Ben & Jerry. {not that I agree with their politics nor business practices..}
tomw