On one of my earlier posts someone commented this and i thought it was really well written
here's what the internet knows about you:
your full given name
your date of birth
your place of birth/ towns of residence
your medical problems
your addictions
your sexual preferences and fantasies
your children, including what they look like and all of their data
your hobbies
your pets
who your friends are
who your best friends are
what your friends like to do and all of their data
who influences who & group dynamics
where you went to school
what qualifications you have
your bank, including special password (and george osborne passed a law allowing the tax man to raid your bank at any time if they claim you owe,)
whether you have disposable cash
how impulsive you are in buying
all of your supermarket items
your insurance companies
your car
your convictions
your credit rating
your deepest fears
your greatest hopes
your company/ employment and all of the data that goes along with that
your employees' data
your shopping habits
your political preference, including and focusing on those who are completely anti-establishment
so you tell me just supposing, IF a mad megalomaniac bad guy wanted to take control over every aspect of people's lives on earth, making laws strictly forbidding certain kinds of behaviour and certain kinds of speech, would it be possible at all to do that via control of the internet as a) more and more of the world gets online,) and b) we live more and more of our lives online and the offline option is quickly being removed and c) they have a police force and laws passed that will allow them to physically come and arrest you, detain you indefinitely under anti-terrorism charges, as well as cut you off online and control people's feeds so hardly anyone hears about it, then WOULD having everyone using the internet for almost everything be a good way to do it, d'ya think?
