as this fifth of November was attended by more people than ever, demanding an end to the surveillance and censorship and calling for civil liberties such as freedom of expression to be restored, it is enough to think a little, like V originally did.
Unfortunately, most people are still not aware of what is happening in the world at this point. Our guarantee privacy has been erased, our civil liberties abolished in all but name. Yet most people are not aware because their Drudge days. Worrying families Berlin in winter 1932 were still going skating in the park as they had always - all the rumors of bad things were happening elsewhere, not in the here and now, do not interrupt the familiar
[Good evening, London. I, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition.
The recipe for complacency population remained constant since Roman times: divert the majority of people with bread and games, and you'll be glad to have something terrible ignored. Who cares about the foundations of democracy being jackhammered roller, when you can read about the latest wedding Kim Kardashian? Or worse, how much do you really read the police in Ferguson, USA killing civilians in cold blood in the open street, if you are not turning to alternative media that are not obedient mouthpieces?
There are, of course, those who do not want us talking. ... So that the stick can be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth.
And for those who speak anyway, the public space is now censored. It used to be that we talked freely on the town square. These days we converse on social media in the hands of private companies who manage to enforce their rules on their servers. Not without a lot of problems this actually gives private companies the right to define freedom of expression.
If I stuck a link to The Pirate Bay to someone in a message on Facebook, I am a popup saying that I had posted content declined, and asked me not to do it in the future.
When you talked on the phone to someone, could you imagine a third voice suddenly interrupts the conversation with "you mentioned a subject refused. The sentence was automatically cut off. Please do not discuss unauthorized subjects in the future "? That's where we are. Already. Now. While most people were looking the other way.
And as if that were not enough, this is all recorded for the express purpose of using our own conversations against us at some indeterminate point in the future, perhaps under a different set of rules all did. Thus, even in the illusion of freedom of expression, people are encouraged to hold their tongues.
And where once you had the freedom of opposition, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance compel your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did it happen?
It is extremely easy to frighten the population into submission facing an external threat. The name of the threat has changed through the ages - communists in the 1950s, jazz musicians in the 1930s, the comic in the 1960s, witches during the late medieval - but the mechanisms remain the same . The government tells us to be afraid of something. Mouth media obediently repeats the message. And then, out of the fabricated threat of having the order to have peace, powers weaken a bit more freedom and strengthen their grip on which ideas are allowed.
He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he asked in return was your silent consent obedient.
It is in this context that people are increasingly choosing not be obedient, but rather to talk about injustice. The technology that bypasses construction contractors and subverts government command and control, people who enter the government and extract the scathing evidence of wrongdoing, people who prefer to take up arms as a last resort to defend against attack a repressive regime than sitting silently in obedience. These people used to be called industrialists, journalists and freedom fighters. Today they are called criminals, hackers (in a bad sense), and terrorists, outraged by the media mouthpiece. For your protection.
But of course, your own diet could never be repressive, as long as democratic elections are held on schedule. Bad things are always happening elsewhere.
The fairness, justice and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you saw what I saw; if you feel like I feel ...
This year on November the fifth, a Million Mask March was held under the banner of Anonymous. People gathered in major cities such as Paris, London and Madrid, and in every corner like, well, Nuuk (Greenland). While public displays of opinion do absolutely nothing to influence and persuade others, they show that people no longer are willing to respect the obedient consent they are not alone, and so he can set the ball rolling.
civil liberties were abolished in all but name.
[1945007manifestationspacifiques] policies are now classified as terrorism.people denouncing government corruption and the lies go to jail to do.
every move you make, every breath you take, government agencies are listening to.
is funnier. Where is your line in the sand?
Until this line is reached, you can (and should) use tools to protect your own freedoms. No one does it for you.
Privacy remains your own responsibility.
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