Verizon’s “Can you hear me now” ad, NSA-style
Parody of Verizon’s “Can you hear me now” ads in light of NSA surveillance bombshell. From Slate. Verizon guy: “Can you hear me now?” President Obama: “Yes, we can.”
Category Archives: Privacy
Verizon and the NSA – a response to five non-arguments justifying surveillance
Today my tweeting was heavily focused on the revelation that Verizon gave up a significant amount of information to the NSA. Among the many interesting pieces I read was an attempt by Slate’s Will Saletan to justify the surveillance. In a nutshell, Saletan argues: It isn’t wiretapping. It’s judicially supervised. It’s congressionally supervised. It expires […]
Julian Assange: “The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’”
As I sit here working on a forthcoming article—Super-Intermediaries, Code, Human Rights—about powerful internet intermediaries and human rights, I was intrigued to come across Julian Assange’s op-ed in Saturday’s New York Times entitled The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’. Assange, the reclusive founder of WikiLeaks, has harsh words for Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, authors of the […]
Are we too wired? (Yes.)
Is too much of our life wired? Below Reihan Salam and Rev Grossman discuss on bloggingheads.tv the addictive quality of social networking: IMHO, information overload is addictive, and it doesn’t necessarily lead to knowledge or wisdom. I don’t know about others, but the biggest thing that clears my mind is getting away from the computer, […]