Stallman about surveillance

[Thomas Milne]

On Oct 31, 2013 6:09 PM, "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> I think he's quite insightful
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http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/a-necessary-evil-what-it-takes-for-democracy-to-survive-surveillance/
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Stallman falls into the 'there's a technical solution to everything' trap.

The problem is not privacy. In an interconnected world, privacy is, by
definition, dead.

The problem is democracy. In a world of interconnected peers, the loss of
privacy is meaningless because it is equally distributed. It is only
because wealth and power are so unequally distributed that privacy is
abused.

By the wealthy and powerful of course.
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