-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/15 02:39 AM, furtherfield wrote: > No. 09: Digital Tailspin: Ten Rules for the Internet After > Snowden, Michael Seemann > > Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but > also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag > revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital > world. [...] Traditional institutions and concepts of freedom are > threatened by this digital tailspin.
Wikileaks, flashmobs and the Arab Spring don't reveal that "we" lost control of the Internet and that "our" traditions, institutions and freedoms are threatened because of that. The book's table of contents tells a much better story, e.g.: RULE 5: YOU ARE THE FREEDOM OF THE OTHER RULE 6: PLATFORM CONTROL IS POWER RULE 7: THE STATE IS PART OF THE PROBLEM, NOT OF THE SOLUTION RULE 8: DATA CONTROL CREATES HEGEMONY -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVAxfiAAoJECciMUAZd2dZlc0H/iaN5+JgU08mQZwOwmckvMn1 iFQjxdVyxTOyeUkc4w0QPXGYX5DIGNFIsi02qCAPnM5U8Y0IgZX6MNAd4eGcHtd4 DMN+vnfCAl/3g3fD5cyJrNC2IkPMaIv4A6XNyxmsB+Rysxe5pVYzWr2LXuT/3Nv4 +rRnizhICW/p/PXeRlf8jV27nM40VPtUQlJiBSKvUtZ5ZGWnjw43XZFh1D/GgL2v B2XTbJBFsZapAq62cQWAkIeCa4y23n1/ou7DvaW1PV1j5aeKmRio/hjjripFHfPJ Aleqa134oF8fiXZbXR/KVdh6uTBT8k03GkF8ETB1CxMxpOs5wn4QGdb+iLk7HXg= =fqf0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
