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In reply to the discussion: Destroying the Right to Be Left Alone [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)65. That's because you aren't bothering to actually read my posts.
I am envisioning something that is NOT the internet--something "other than" and "outside" the internet....and you keep yelling at me about "the internet" because that is what you "know" and you cannot think past it.
You need to actually read the posts if you want to understand them.
You are proposing a system where you connect two people with no intervening third parties in order to avoid those third parties from sharing information.
I'm trying to explain to you that we can already accomplish that. There is no need for a new system. Because we can make the current system do what you want. Right now. For free.
People said that there was "no way" a human could walk on the moon. That wasn't true.
No, this is more like you coming up with a new idea of walking on other bodies in the solar system. In 1986.
And then claiming that other people just don't understand your vision when they describe how it was done in 1969 and why it was done that way.
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Unfortunately when they have had enough it will be long too late to do anything.
former9thward
Sep 2013
#37
While the invasion of my privacy is not an issue I would change my vote to Romney ....
marble falls
Sep 2013
#9
But the Democrats would be doing something very different if Romney were POTUS
Fumesucker
Sep 2013
#23
Reading comprehension much? I loathe Romney. I support the President except on privacy....
marble falls
Sep 2013
#36
Please reread my comment. I support the Presient except on privacy, Gitmo and.....
marble falls
Sep 2013
#39
Sorry! Even gentle critisism of the President brings down a raft of tone deaf ....
marble falls
Sep 2013
#43
Like connecting directly to the cloud with almost no computer - all you'd need is a screen and ...
marble falls
Sep 2013
#10
Well, that IS a consideration. Perhaps there could be multiple levels of "internet."
MADem
Sep 2013
#21
And that's how the phone used to work. You picked up the receiver, you cranked the crank, and
MADem
Sep 2013
#26
K&R but make no mistake, it's not the technology. Like so many previous wrong turns,
Egalitarian Thug
Sep 2013
#11
Well, I'm all for the "safety nannies" who tell people to not drink and text while driving.
MADem
Sep 2013
#47
I just had a loved one killed by someone who felt the rules didn't apply to them.
MADem
Sep 2013
#63
So money is greater than freedoms? Where does that stop? What you eat, drink, etc?
The Straight Story
Sep 2013
#66
The intent of those who wrote and adopted the US Constitution could not be clearer
99th_Monkey
Sep 2013
#77