Many systems collect massive dossiers about Americans' activities.
Some are run by the state, but most are run by businesses. To limit
the NSA's access to these dossiers would be a step in the right
direction, but not enough to prevent tyranny.
Democracy depends on whistleblowers such as Chelsea Manning, John
Kiriakou and Edward Snowden to watch the watchmen. However, the state
calls this a "crime". Under any conceivable law limiting state access
to the dossiers, the pursuit of "criminals" would constitute grounds.
Thus, that approach will fail to protect democracy from surveillance.
To protect democracy, we must redesign digital systems so that they do
not create dossiers about people in general.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html
for more details.
Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
MacArthur Fellow
We shouldn't be oberly concerned with the new 'hybrid' education. It seems to be failing for close to 1/3 of those exposed to it. The other 2/3 get a 'cut and paste' indoctrination patterned on what? Corporate success and right wiong extremism?
A year on a more open institution or simply an exposure to life will have most of them questioning the basic dishonesty. The cost however should outrage them.
Playing the fence game with politics is always foolish, what's your mission and who you are means something. If youthink you can regulate beliefs and keep it seperated you forgot who you are and who your dealing with. Our fathers understood clear repeat of histories mistakes., In bed with blind agenda is a hand in the pot.
you have less time then you think.
I respect your viewpoint, but I think you are really missing the point of the article. Its really not a surprise that Google funds groups on the left/progressive side of things. They are well known as being a progressive leaning corporation, with all the faults that you expect of that. So yes they also fund groups like AARP and the NAACP. But it is extremely surprising to me that they are funding Grover and especially Heritage Action. Why are they doing that? And that this is a new thing is interesting, or at least it is to me. If you missed the recent New Republic article about them I suggest you check it out:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115688/heritage-foundations-michael-needham-tears-apart-right-wing
So thank you for this article and for exposing what Google are doing. I think some people are just too cynical to be shocked when this sort of thing happens, and thats a shame.
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