Comcast

[Jim Herrmann]

What Comcast is doing is totally trival to what John Asscroft and his cronies 
are doing.  Collecting a little marketing data on people is one thing, but 
evesdropping on attorney client conversations is quite another.  I'm not 
saying Comcast is just in what they are doing, it's just that there are far 
more outrageous and dangerous and unconstitutional violations of civil 
liberties going on in the US right now for me to get worked up about.  If you 
want to talk about liberty infringement, let's talk about thousands being 
jailed and held without being charged with a crime.  Let's talk about the 
totally mis-named "PATRIOT" act or the DCMA.  Then we'll be talking about 
liberties.
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On Thursday 14 February 2002 09:11 am, Adam Turk wrote:
> I believe what everyone has said, but if something must be done, then
> someone must do it. Why quibble over conspiracy theories? They're just
> theories until proven. We as a people seem to have been trained out of
> activism by the wonderful, cloistered lives we live, where our voices
> don't count and our rules are only followed by us. We're better informed
> and more worldly trained than past generations. Information on anything
> is available to us. We can make good decisions. We can see the bad from
> the good. But arm-chair activism never worked. Neither does standing on
> the street with a sign. It's the digital age. Find services that work
> without being watched. Network. Don't centralize. Go around, not
> through. They will always try to gather 'marketing statistics'. They
> always have. Information isn't just readily available to us, but also to
> them. Privacy is a right, it's a freedom. Yes, it will protect the bad,
> but it will enlighten the good, which is far more profound. Liberty is
> dangerous, but it's the safest thing we have.
> </rant>
>