On 24 July 2017 14:33:04 CEST, Nikos Roussos <comzer...@fsfe.org> wrote: > > >On July 24, 2017 2:24:31 PM GMT+02:00, Daniel Pocock ><dan...@pocock.pro> wrote: >>On 24/07/17 14:18, Reinhard Müller wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Am 2017-07-24 um 14:14 schrieb Daniel Pocock: >>>> Why don't we go through all the messages in this thread and replace >>the >>>> words "social media" with "mass surveillance"? >>> an interesting point. >>> >>> Should FSFE, for example, refuse to present itself at locations >where >>> surveillance cameras are present? >> >>A better analogy: locations that serve you free drinks as long as you >>take off all your clothes and sit in front of the surveillance camera > >And that's why analogies are rarely useful. You get to a conclusion >than doesn't make sense if you transfer it back to the initial context. >
But interchanging the words "social media" and "mass surveillance" is not an analogy, it is more like a synonym or a question of narrative. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
