Now if like me you grew up with computers, you know they are pretty interesting things to get a hold of and play with, you can tell them to do things and they do them, firing out garbage only if you programme it in, aka GIGO. Since the advent of the internet though the whole computer thing has changed, we're no longer talking to a system that could not care less about anything we do, because it is a tool and it has no ability to be sentient. The thing is though I think a lot of companies are now treating people like they are ironically a machine, they, can use to their own ends, Google, wickid, facewad, Twitt,er,umum, and all the rest of the world wide web. Now my jokey names aside I think it is dangerous to limit the internet in such a way as you use it to control people, to find out facts about them, and then to use it as a means of social control. Now I am not talking about some vast global conspiracy to keep the humans down by way o' the Reptillians, more that companies are exploiting free information to know and control far more about our lives than they should. I see the creeping insinuation of the thought police moving in all the time. Am I alone on this?
My question hence is should we feel comfortable about this ingression into what I personally thing should be the free exchange of ideas. Or should we start saying, we are not prepared to be monitored, and controlled by large corporations who may think they have the internets and the peoples best interest at heart, but are really only trying to turn it into another means to an end that has been plagued by social control since the first societies evolved. Should these people be subject to controls themselves therefore, to let freedom reign in as much as it is or can be free, or should they be allowed to monitor us to the extent that by just knowing our IP address or our mobile phone number they can track everything we ever do by knowing where we are and who and when we are talking to people, with little or no regard to privacy? Do we need to have watchers who watch the watchers? Will this become more of an issue as time goes by? Or am I Just paranoid?
Oh and I meant Kosha not Kosher which is something entirely different btw.
