I saw an article in this gentleman’s blog that made the case for a new internet where users give up their privacy in the name of security,perhaps, by creating a mandatory Internet Driver’s License. I will make the case against this: It would be ethically wrong, expensive, and ineffective. I propose a better way.
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In Response to ‘NYT: Do we need a new Internet? 19Feb09’
2010/03/23
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On Humanity: Is It Still Within Us?
2009/11/06I set down and read the news every few days – and almost every time, I see some new atrocity:
- A Serial Killer in Cleveland Operated for About 3 Years
- A Soldier Kills 7 in a Texas Rampage
- Another Al Quaeda Beheading
- ‘Bush Advisor Said President Has Legal Power to Torture Children‘
- A Lawyer Committed $700 Million Fraud ‘More Brazen than Madoff
- Companies use contracts to force unconscionably bad fees and service onto their customers
- The police are, too often, in-effective to stop these things or, occasionally, are actively part of the problem
I believe there is something wrong with people. I feel that many other peoples’ values are not the same as mine. For the record, I am not religious; I am guided entirely by a strong sense of ethics. I wonder if most other people in this world are guided by anything at all, after I read things like the above every few days. (more…)