Privacy is Sacred…
I like the idea of accountability, but on the other hand, I obviously despise the notion of a complete and absolute lack of privacy, as it becomes easier and easier to track people down on the net and figure out their past and present, often without allowing people to have any saying about what gets posted and what doesn’t.At this stage, when someone comments: “oh, but if you’re honest and truthful, you have nothing to fear” I’ll just gently remind them that this is the first step towards dictatorship, and tell them to grab a copy of George Orwell’s “1984”. It’s really so, so easy to find very good and persuasive argumentation about how “honest people” have nothing to fear about having their whole private lives being exposed publicly. It’s a very powerful, compelling, and persuasive argument.
It happens just to lead to a one-side track road straight into the oblivion of dictatorship. But it’s the first step that is the hardest to take, and we’re so close to taking it…
— Gwyneth Llewelyn, commenting on “Your Born Identity”
1 year ago