On 03/29/2016 11:05 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
Thought you guys would be interested in this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/28/mass-surveillance-silences-minority-opinions-according-to-study/
Is it right to say that mass surveillance _causes_ the silencing? It seems to me that our tendency to conform is the cause. Then the cause[s] of that tendency [is|are] probably occult, where some will yap about things like group selection and others about ontogeny (education, demographics, etc). I assume that various generations vary in their tendency to conform. (We just watched Experimenter the other night: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3726704/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 , which suggests it's robust across lots of conditions.) So, perhaps the relationship between (recognition of) mass surveillance and self-censorship is simply a symptom of a deeper cause. -- ⇔ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
