Most of you followed last year’s revolution in Egypt, and how protestors used Twitter, Facebook, etc, and the effort the government made to “shut down the internet”. This illustrated very effectively how the internet is a tool that is inherently hostile to “information control.”
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RobertDavidSteele on 06/24 at 10:31 AM
This is right on target. As one of those who contributed to creating the Autonomous Internet Roadmap, and as the author of THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust that came out on 5 June 2012, I also share the author’s view that transparency is “root” for establishing consensus on truth, and therefore trust. I have posted extracts from the book (three per chapter) at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, all of which support the above author’s reflections. The book is $10 at Amazon, $14 everywhere else that I know of.
The USA is a two-party tyranny in which the political class has shaken down Wall Street and corporations for money, and as Matt Taibbi documents so well in GRIFTOPIA, we now have a permanent criminal-political elite manipulating our currency and our economy, not at all in the public interest.
Consider looking for the YouTube of my presentation to Gnomedex is Seattle in January 2007, “Open Everything,” it hits hard on these themes. I believe that Open Source Everything—with transparency, truth, and trust implied—is going to be the meme of the 21st Century.
Posted by
Valkyrie Ice on 06/30 at 11:54 AM
Never claimed to be an Engineer of any sort Shagggz.
In fact have never claimed to be anything but a computer geek, an avid tech reader, and a reporter who wants to be a succubus. I don’t claim any credentials of any sort because I find them to be rather valueless as anything but an indicator that you were wealthy enough to be able to afford to pay to get them. In fact, I have specifically stated I have no “professional reputation” to have to protect, which is why I am willing to “look outside the box” and examine factors that others refuse to.
I’m an A+ tech with training in electronics repair, and that’s it. I work as a waiter, and support a disabled person, because where I currently live there is no work for an A+ tech. Coming by five bucks to spare is hard, let alone enough to pay for a name change when you work for 2.13 an hour in a small town where the average customer _maybe_ makes minimum wage too, if they aren’t on a fixed income. I’ve struggled just to make the rent most of my life considering I’ve never had a job that raised me above the poverty level. Even the computer I am writing this on is cobbled together from stuff other people threw away and bargain bin used parts.
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