Social media and e-mail "services" have fundamentally altered the paradigm of interpersonal communications ... some for the good, some for the bad. Yes, it is fast, more efficient and "free.." But it's as though our previous method, our mail service, opened, read, saved and exploited everything that was in our letters. It's also like our written interpersonal communication is now only on electronic postcards. This is an often unrealized trade-off and a fundamental violation of every citizen's right of privacy.
Our government must rein in this technology to the point of its providing an optional and absolute privacy shield against this intrusion ... equivalent to what it was when we mailed a sealed envelope.
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So true. (That is still a word, right?) Even those racy, cray-cray postcards, once you got them you were pretty sure they wouldn’t start appearing all over place.
A cartoon showed a raging person on the phone screaming about how some hired goon dropped huge books on their doorstep with the names,addresses, and phone numbers of EVERYBODY in the city. So last millennium.
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Now you have to pay ...
The right to privacy has been traded-off for convenience. But, I don't know what you are complaining about. Nowadays, people think their opinions are so interesting and persuasive that they want *everyone* to see them. BTW, the USPS still delivers sealed letters.
But the Internet won't ... that's my point.
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