Brexit Backers Are Forgetting the Internet Erases Borders
http://www.wired.com/2016/06/brexit-backers-forgetting-internet-erases-borders/
"There is absolutely, matter-of-factly, verifiably, no
isolation in the world today," says Parag Khanna, author of
the book Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global
Civilization, which argues that the world is now defined less
by countries and more by connectivity. "There is no place in
the world you can't get to or that there aren't the modern
trappings of technology." And yet those very ideologies are
what Trump and pro-Brexit leaders perceive to be the real
threat. Just this week, Trump said he only wants to admit
people to the US "who share our values and love our people."
Meanwhile, Brexit supporters like Nigel Farage, leader of the
UK Independent Party, have campaigned for Britain to leave the
EU with ads that show immigrants crossing a border en masse.
"Within a few years, all of these people will have EU
passports," Farage says in the video below. "We are much less
safe as part of this European Union."
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Thanks to the Net, I'm sitting here in L.A. waching BREXIT coverage
live on BBC 1. I'm betting the vote will be a win for REMAIN/IN.
We shall see.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently
doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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