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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Fearmongers are doing enormous damage with their
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Fearmongers are doing enormous damage with their hyperbole: Groklaw
shutting down due to "email fears"
http://j.mp/16sDH97 (Groklaw)
"My personal decision is to get off of the Internet to the degree it's
possible. I'm just an ordinary person. But I really know, after all my
research and some serious thinking things through, that I can't stay
online personally without losing my humanness, now that I know that
ensuring privacy online is impossible. I find myself unable to write.
I've always been a private person. That's why I never wanted to be a
celebrity and why I fought hard to maintain both my privacy and yours.
Oddly, if everyone did that, leap off the Internet, the world's
economy would collapse, I suppose. I can't really hope for that. But
for me, the Internet is over. So this is the last Groklaw article. I
won't turn on comments. Thank you for all you've done. I will never
forget you and our work together. I hope you'll remember me too. I'm
sorry I can't overcome these feelings, but I yam what I yam, and I
tried, but I can't." - Pamela Jones
- - -
Groklaw is an important resource, and Pamela's decision is -- in my
opinion -- dead wrong. Frankly, people are now grossly overreacting to
hyperbole, not reality. Which suggests that those persons throwing
around the hyperbole may well be doing more damage to free speech --
by scaring the hell out of so many people with exaggerations -- than
NSA could ever do.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
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