There was an interesting article in Zero Hedge about what happens when children are coddled and overprotected to the point that they break under stress.
Not stress like an 18 year old soldier dodging bullets in a Middle Eastern desert moonscape.
Stress like hearing a classmate offer a well supported disagreement with another's opinion paper.
Something as trivial as that requiring colleges to establish safe spaces with unicorn pattern blankets for the perpetually aggrieved.
I live in Los Angeles but fortunately, my area is quietly non-political. No Biden signs. No Trump signs. Maybe nine months ago, I discovered the family across the street are Trump supporters. Only because the wife and I struck up a conversation about the impeachment while I was working in my yard.
And the big data/Google/Facebook/Twitter galaxy is scary. Not on Twitter, Tik Tok, etc.
Years ago, had to get a Facebook account to rent a cheap studio truck for our move. After that two weeks, I immediately deleted it and all tentacles.
Another thing that a lot of people don’t think about - big data has been around longer than “big tech” although they have managed to monetize it best.
Think about our society, you can’t do anything without being required to put tons of data in publicly searchable (I.e not just restricted to government or LEOs) free/paid databases.
Do you want to:
Drive a car?
Own a car?
Buy a house?
Rent a house?
Vote?
Have electricity? Water? Gas? Sewer?
Have a phone? Internet service?
Use anything other than cash/cryptocurrency to buy goods and services?
Choosing to participate in any of those activities require you volunteer some level of personal information that is going to be indexed and searchable, maybe not all of it for free, but there are all sorts of paid databases that will give that out to anyone.
What if an equifax employee decided to take all that info (or a hacker leaks it on the dark web lol) and cross reference it with the voter databases, and generate a list of “all these people are republicans, let’s get them fired”?
All true.
There was an interesting article in Zero Hedge about what happens when children are coddled and overprotected to the point that they break under stress.
Not stress like an 18 year old soldier dodging bullets in a Middle Eastern desert moonscape.
Stress like hearing a classmate offer a well supported disagreement with another's opinion paper.
Something as trivial as that requiring colleges to establish safe spaces with unicorn pattern blankets for the perpetually aggrieved.
I live in Los Angeles but fortunately, my area is quietly non-political. No Biden signs. No Trump signs. Maybe nine months ago, I discovered the family across the street are Trump supporters. Only because the wife and I struck up a conversation about the impeachment while I was working in my yard.
And the big data/Google/Facebook/Twitter galaxy is scary. Not on Twitter, Tik Tok, etc.
Years ago, had to get a Facebook account to rent a cheap studio truck for our move. After that two weeks, I immediately deleted it and all tentacles.
Another thing that a lot of people don’t think about - big data has been around longer than “big tech” although they have managed to monetize it best.
Think about our society, you can’t do anything without being required to put tons of data in publicly searchable (I.e not just restricted to government or LEOs) free/paid databases.
Do you want to: Drive a car? Own a car? Buy a house? Rent a house? Vote? Have electricity? Water? Gas? Sewer? Have a phone? Internet service? Use anything other than cash/cryptocurrency to buy goods and services?
Choosing to participate in any of those activities require you volunteer some level of personal information that is going to be indexed and searchable, maybe not all of it for free, but there are all sorts of paid databases that will give that out to anyone.
What if an equifax employee decided to take all that info (or a hacker leaks it on the dark web lol) and cross reference it with the voter databases, and generate a list of “all these people are republicans, let’s get them fired”?
Yup. Could happen.
Look at what those Ebay execs did to that couple who had some disagreement with Ebay.
Not content with destroying the couple online, several of the Ebay execs flew across the country to wreak havoc in a close and personal manner.