Sorry, but I had to:
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
the horror
I was thinking of posting about Facebook's Terms of Use. Specifically of question is the Term of Use indicating that they can do anything they want with your User Content (pictures, posts, etc.). They can license them for advertising purposes and seemingly don't have to contact you at all. Sure I'm being alarmist, but I've always had that sort of streak. Maybe -- hopefully -- it's not as bad as it looks, but I've heard stories...
Anyway, what I'm actually going to post about is far more grave. Let's not worry about online rights, OK? Life was fine before "online" and life will continue to be fine once it has passed, or once it's so locked down as to become unfashionable (it's probably inevitable at this point). Thai police have ordered shut hundreds of websites that were found objectionable to the current government. Scary, huh? It's worse in Russia, apparently. A staunch anti-Kremlin website owner was arrested by police and shot. In the head. While in police custody.
Honestly, I'm not even going to write about those incidents. I'm not going to write further about those incidents, I mean. We know things are scary all over this world. However, I didn't know they were that scary here, aux États-Unis. Apparently (again, I'm being cautious), presumed protesters of the Republican National Convention had their houses and apartments raided at gun-point by large groups of SWAT team members. Many we handcuffed, some detained, and a few fully arrested and charged. Computer equipment was taken. Warrants existed, but weren't shown in some cases until the end of such incidents. However, no crimes had been committed. This isn't scary, really; it's horrifying. Just go read it.
I'm sure details are missing, and I hope there's another side to this story. If anyone knows it, please please please forward it along. Like I said earlier on, I have this alarmist streak, and I'm quite alarmed right now.
Anyway, what I'm actually going to post about is far more grave. Let's not worry about online rights, OK? Life was fine before "online" and life will continue to be fine once it has passed, or once it's so locked down as to become unfashionable (it's probably inevitable at this point). Thai police have ordered shut hundreds of websites that were found objectionable to the current government. Scary, huh? It's worse in Russia, apparently. A staunch anti-Kremlin website owner was arrested by police and shot. In the head. While in police custody.
Honestly, I'm not even going to write about those incidents. I'm not going to write further about those incidents, I mean. We know things are scary all over this world. However, I didn't know they were that scary here, aux États-Unis. Apparently (again, I'm being cautious), presumed protesters of the Republican National Convention had their houses and apartments raided at gun-point by large groups of SWAT team members. Many we handcuffed, some detained, and a few fully arrested and charged. Computer equipment was taken. Warrants existed, but weren't shown in some cases until the end of such incidents. However, no crimes had been committed. This isn't scary, really; it's horrifying. Just go read it.
I'm sure details are missing, and I hope there's another side to this story. If anyone knows it, please please please forward it along. Like I said earlier on, I have this alarmist streak, and I'm quite alarmed right now.
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