Hi LibTech, The debates that rage on after every trickle of snowden release justifiably causes much resentment. However, one crucial point about these debates are often missed. And that is that the exact debates we are having and the exact evidence on which they based are controlled by a tiny select few of now celebrity journalists.
We are face unknown risks, given the information taking place on there, affects our daily lives. What devices, proceses and organisations we can trust will be and are being influenced by the contents of the documents. This not to say that all centralized control of a valuable set of information is always bad. But in this case, the trickle of information out comes with slivers blacked out, terribly skewing the terms of the debate that ensues. We're unable to see a fuller picture of even the little we see, and the values guiding the framework of debate of the releases are a mysterious black box to us. If anything we've seen so far is something to go by, we really ought to be more cautious about who we let control the terms of public debate and why. Regards, Ryan Bartos -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
