Naomi Wolf: The End of America

[Arraya]

“but, i think that attitude is a double edged nuke. assuming that “things will take care of themselves” or that someone (someone else) will “fix it” are not conducive to things getting fixed…”

That is spot on and to make matters worse. The powers that be that are in charge of fixing things do not have our best interest at heart so the problem expotenially grows

[gandalf]

Censorship, content-filtering, etc. occurs all the time. It occurs within organizations as a matter of IT policy, but also as a way for management to control and monitor employee performance while on the job. Corporations have a right to monitor you and enforce boundaries on your behavior and the use of their equipment on the job, and they often do.

Above the subnet, organization or corporation level, the censorship occurs in the form of investigations, lawsuits and legal challenges, formal DMCA takedowns, as well as active content and traffic restrictions and mitigation of service, both formal and unacknowledged, by certain providers (google EFF Comcast).

On a more fundamental level, the move to eliminate Net Neutrality is de facto censorship in that traffic queuing and prioritization impacts system performance negatively for certain categories of content providers, coercing and channeling traffic towards capitalized providers. While not a formal restriction on content, it would serve to impact patterns of information transfer (read: consumption) as effectively as censorship.

[gandalf]

Censorship, content-filtering, etc. occurs all the time. It occurs within organizations as a matter of IT policy, but also as a way for management to control and monitor employee performance while on the job. Corporations have a right to monitor you and enforce boundaries on your behavior and the use of their equipment on the job, and they often do.

Above the subnet, organization or corporation level, the censorship occurs in the form of investigations, lawsuits and legal challenges, formal DMCA takedowns, as well as active content and traffic restrictions and mitigation of service, both formal and unacknowledged, by certain providers (google EFF Comcast).

On a more fundamental level, the move to eliminate Net Neutrality is de facto censorship in that traffic queuing and prioritization impacts system performance negatively for certain categories of content providers, coercing and channeling traffic towards capitalized providers. While not a formal restriction on content, it would serve to impact patterns of information transfer (read: consumption) as effectively as censorship.

[gandalf]

Censorship, content-filtering, etc. occurs all the time. It occurs within organizations as a matter of IT policy, but also as a way for management to control and monitor employee performance while on the job. Corporations have a right to monitor you and enforce boundaries on your behavior and the use of their equipment on the job, and they often do.

Above the subnet, organization or corporation level, the censorship occurs in the form of investigations, lawsuits and legal challenges, formal DMCA takedowns, as well as active content and traffic restrictions and mitigation of service, both formal and unacknowledged, by certain providers (google EFF Comcast).

On a more fundamental level, the move to eliminate Net Neutrality is de facto censorship in that traffic queuing and prioritization impacts system performance negatively for certain categories of content providers, coercing and channeling traffic towards capitalized providers. While not a formal restriction on content, it would serve to impact patterns of information transfer (read: consumption) as effectively as censorship.

[gandalf]

Censorship, content-filtering, etc. occurs all the time. It occurs within organizations as a matter of IT policy, but also as a way for management to control and monitor employee performance while on the job. Corporations have a right to monitor you and enforce boundaries on your behavior and the use of their equipment on the job, and they often do.

Above the subnet, organization or corporation level, the censorship occurs in the form of investigations, lawsuits and legal challenges, formal DMCA takedowns, as well as active content and traffic restrictions and mitigation of service, both formal and unacknowledged, by certain providers (google EFF Comcast).

On a more fundamental level, the move to eliminate Net Neutrality is de facto censorship in that traffic queuing and prioritization impacts system performance negatively for certain categories of content providers, coercing and channeling traffic towards capitalized providers. While not a formal restriction on content, it would serve to impact patterns of information transfer (read: consumption) as effectively as censorship.

[gandalf]

Censorship, content-filtering, etc. occurs all the time. It occurs within organizations as a matter of IT policy, but also as a way for management to control and monitor employee performance while on the job. Corporations have a right to monitor you and enforce boundaries on your behavior and the use of their equipment on the job, and they often do.

Above the subnet, organization or corporation level, the censorship occurs in the form of investigations, lawsuits and legal challenges, formal DMCA takedowns, as well as active content and traffic restrictions and mitigation of service, both formal and unacknowledged, by certain providers (google EFF Comcast).

On a more fundamental level, the move to eliminate Net Neutrality is de facto censorship in that traffic queuing and prioritization impacts system performance negatively for certain categories of content providers, coercing and channeling traffic towards capitalized providers. While not a formal restriction on content, it would serve to impact patterns of information transfer (read: consumption) as effectively as censorship.

[Ricechex]

Thanks Drunkle. Sandi Egan–I will try to see if I can post any of the blocks when I am at work.

[Ricechex]

Thanks Drunkle. Sandi Egan–I will try to see if I can post any of the blocks when I am at work.

[Ricechex]

Thanks Drunkle. Sandi Egan–I will try to see if I can post any of the blocks when I am at work.

[Ricechex]

Thanks Drunkle. Sandi Egan–I will try to see if I can post any of the blocks when I am at work.

[Ricechex]

Thanks Drunkle. Sandi Egan–I will try to see if I can post any of the blocks when I am at work.

[34f3f3f]

Well here’s another drunken rant …and the good thing about them is you are never ashamed of them until it’s too late. I’m a great fan of Bill Bryson and I found this quote by Joseph Priestley, which was aimed at the ineptitudes of the English language, but nevertheless is relevant to many matters “…it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of the synods, which are often hasty and injudicious.” We can substitute synod with change mongers.

[34f3f3f]

Well here’s another drunken rant …and the good thing about them is you are never ashamed of them until it’s too late. I’m a great fan of Bill Bryson and I found this quote by Joseph Priestley, which was aimed at the ineptitudes of the English language, but nevertheless is relevant to many matters “…it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of the synods, which are often hasty and injudicious.” We can substitute synod with change mongers.

[34f3f3f]

Well here’s another drunken rant …and the good thing about them is you are never ashamed of them until it’s too late. I’m a great fan of Bill Bryson and I found this quote by Joseph Priestley, which was aimed at the ineptitudes of the English language, but nevertheless is relevant to many matters “…it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of the synods, which are often hasty and injudicious.” We can substitute synod with change mongers.

[34f3f3f]

Well here’s another drunken rant …and the good thing about them is you are never ashamed of them until it’s too late. I’m a great fan of Bill Bryson and I found this quote by Joseph Priestley, which was aimed at the ineptitudes of the English language, but nevertheless is relevant to many matters “…it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of the synods, which are often hasty and injudicious.” We can substitute synod with change mongers.

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