[lbo-talk] Why Metadata Matters

[Wojtek S]

I do not give a flying fuck about government spying on the whole world
because it doesn't affect me. What affects me is private companies fucking
with my information. Case in point, fucking Google just updated my account
and changed defaults which I cannot undo. I will probably need to reset all
my gmail accounts as result, which will take me a day.  So again, why
should I care about something that doesn't affect me when fucking telecoms
make my life inconvenient every day?

Wojtek
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On Jul 29, 2013 4:43 AM, "Bill Bartlett" <william7 at aapt.net.au> wrote:


>
> On 28/07/2013, at 12:48 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You are losing me here, if not your grip on reality ;)
> >
> > First, unlike the US Russia does not have death penalty and it is
> standard
> > practice among no-death-penalty countries to refuse to extradite people
> who
> > may face death penalty.  Formal assurance that the person will not face
> > death penalty is thus necessary for the extradition request to be
> > considered.
>
> I understand that, but you are missing my point, which was that it is
> simply bizarre that the USA has to give an assurance that the death penalty
> won't be used against a mere whistle-blower.
>
> > But what that has to do with my argument about the mediating role of
> > government in the relations between bosses and workers is beyond me.
>
>
> It is relevant to your argument that the pervasive spying on the whole
> world by the USA  is no big deal. The USA government is the one making a
> big deal of it, with its hysterical rhetoric about the whistle-blowers
> being "Traitors" and its mad chasing them as if disclosing this government
> behavious is a capital offence.
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas
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