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The Digital Citizen has rights. And its time to draft them.
by TechnoTimeStop 6y ago
The Digital Citizen has rights. And its time to draft them.
- boomboomsubban 6y agoIt's a shame nobody saw this coming fourty years ago and devoted his life to the cause.
- sova 6y agoThe infrastructure is run by private parties -- but since the advent of encryption it ought be possible to lay down some basic principles or precepts of the online denizen. "The Right to be Forgotten" is a strong step in the right direction, but anonymity sometimes makes people act rashly -- which reminds me of the need for Nettiquette. I believe the difficulty comes in guaranteeing backdoors for law-enforcement and crime-deterrence while still affording a strong level of privacy. It's unlikely that law enforcement will simply "get used to" the fact that encryption works and is difficult [and in the case of ECC likely intractable] to decipher. The alternative is state-run applications and tech-companies with cross-sectional presence of politically inclined people, or some weird tryst of tech companies, lobbying, legislation, and law-enforcement that effectively elevates tech companies to governance level without the primary oversight of elections to place them there. If there is a third option I'd love to hear it.
- userbinator 6y ago"The Right to be Forgotten" is a strong step in the right direction You mean "The Right to Rewrite History"?
- sova 6y agoUh, yeah, as if youtube or any digital screen-based media cannot be instantaneously rewritten or shuffled between visits. Hello "memoryhole" (if you're familiar with 1984)
- boomboomsubban 6y agoFree software. Guaranteeing backdoors is a terrible strategy that should not even be considered.
- kubanczyk 6y agoParent is concerned what will happen in the world where we actually exist.
- sova 6y agoMerely outlining the main antagonistic forces to actual free speech -- I'm more concerned with the weird oligarchic relationship between tech giants and law enforcement that cookie-cuts the electoral process out of the equation ... is that what you were getting at?
- sova 6y agoI believe it was Franklin who said "The man who sacrifices liberty for security will get neither" (paraphrasing) ... however, it's not a common sentiment among law-enforcement officials who prefer quiet over creativity. You are right that it ought not be considered by sane citizens in a free country, but what do you tell the appointed officials that try so desperately to make it so?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoNothing. If they try to pressure it's inclusion we remove it, if they sneak it in we'll find it. That's the beauty of free software.
- sova 6y agoHardware is not so easily audited
- boomboomsubban 6y agoA design choice, not a necessity.
- mangamadaiyan 6y agoNobody named Stallman did. Shame indeed.