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Thursday, March 13, 2003 Mommy, can I live in a police state? Ah the Patriot Act. One of the most blatant affronts to the rights of Americans since the US run concentration camps on WWII. (Not that I'm trying to lessen the horrors of Japanese internment, but rather use hyperbole to emphasize my uneasiness towards out current administration.) One of the provisions of the Patriot Act gives the FBI the ability to have the records of a citizens library book check-out history. And the Santa Cruz Public Libraries began posting warnings about this last week. Now people in Santa Cruz are all up in arms about it (which is really no surprise.) Read the Chronicle article here. It is stuff like this that makes me see the darkside of tech and the future. We have the technology to make a wonderful faux-utopia (or at least get closer than we are now), but we also have the technology to create a dark-future vision of the world. And the scary thing is that the choice between utopia and distopia is in the hands of the people that we don't want making that decision. I have no doubt that the leaders of the world would not hesitate to plunge their people into the grim darkness of some Orwellian nightmare if they knew they could get away with it. Which leaves US to combat our quickly approaching doom. it is upto the hackers, phreakers (do people still phreak?), cypher-punks, bloggers, and artists to rise up and combat the ruling warrior-politician-CEOs in the coming guerrilla war. It will be fought in the media, in the very houses and televisions and PCs of the world's population. And we have the technology to win. posted by JMV | 3/13/2003 11:03:00 AM | |
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