Jen wrote a whole bunch of stuff here that you should read first.
People who thought it was so different to invade someone's room and catalog everything they saw are having a hard time seeing the other point of view.
The reason that invading someone's home and keeping information about them is wrong is that we, as a society, have decided that it is a morally wrong (and in most cases CRIMINALLY) wrong. The internet has become what is now in our generation.
The online world is effectively a new society, where we are now trying to hash out a new set of morals and ground rules. In order to properly understand the internet you have to completely disengage yourself from the real world and all its social mores. That is not to say that we cannot define the social mores of the internet to mirror those of the real world, but without complete control of the internet resting in the hands of one governing body, it is left to each site to decide for itself what goes.
Back to the raison d'etre of this post. Just because corps are allowed to catalog us now without our consent, and hide the information they have from us does not mean that it has to be that way forever. The argument shouldn't be about whether we feel fine with letting them own our personal information, it should be about whether we want to let it stay that way.
Why should it be up to corps to decide what the rules about internet privacy should be? When big companies try to tell our government what to do people go to prison ala Jack Abramoff.
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I totally agree. The question is for the future. What do we want to see continue? It may be okay now, since we're all just young punks and we don't have anything important. But what if we get older?
You're right. Why are we letting people that only care about money decide our very delicate privacies? This should be in our hands. Both as a people, and the internet generation that we are.
In posting my post, I wanted to see why I couldn't apply online "morals" as a stranger to real life "morals".
At what point can we say no? And who then gets to say no? You bring up fair points in your blog. Who is deciding for you and I (and everyone else) the laws and morals of the Internet? Because apparently we can't decide for ourselves.
Jen, we decide the laws and morals of the internet by searching and participating in what we do on the internet. The fact that databases and computer software is recording and scanning the information is a part of the market created by the public use of the web.
-Tom
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