i’m mad as hell

this article combined with this article = oppression? coercion? implications for freedom of expression certainly.

and I don’t want to hear about the choice not to use the service. if you provide a platform freely you should provide a platform freely. honestly. i believe that terms of service that force you to use your name on the net really do not accord with the norms of the electronic ecosystem. or i mean, community standards of commercial morality. this sort of policy undercuts the net’s value and in effect censors what people share. i don’t know, i think this whole cloud buzz might just be a way to centralize information and shadow the end to end structure of the net. the structure of the net is its biggest advantage. when you screw around with the little nodes and make em one big node all you reflect is contingency, it might as well be an andy warhol screen print of a node. contingent mush!!

i’ll go there and add this link and you can decide if i’m way out in left field or not.

and I don’t want to hear about accountability. if pseudonyms do something illegal the isps can give ‘em up.

people need some anonymous culture votes but they aren’t gonna get em here. SamuelClemens+ can’t be +1-ing his google searches, linking social media to his blog, writing without pre-judgment or living without (blog)post-judgment. the “point” of social media is different depending on what side you are on. google wants to exchange a product with your information. they want to control it. the user wants to benefit from the other users, not from google itself. get me on diaspora…i’m disappointed over here.

I POUR SOME LIQUOR FOR:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_Dogood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddox_(writer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling

post script: to the internet and social media scroungers of my potentially future inchoate employers, clients, friends. ye who read this! i accept the fact that this is a certain and polarizing statement. you may not agree. when you meet me, i may not agree with the above-anymore-aNYway. this is merely a part of my online aggregate. these words don’t evolve over time. i do.

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