Comments on: Filing Phony Lawsuits for PR and End of Privacy

by: Elisa

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:19:54 +0000

Yes - I don’t get many comments here. I think perhaps I’m too long winded. Actually, I’ve hesitated about promoting my own posts. I should probably start advertising a bit elsewhere. Any suggestions welcome! I’d like to attract more people to the forum, too.

by: Miguel

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:14:38 +0000

You know Elisa it seems that you and I are the only people commenting on this site. It doesn’t provide me with optimism concerning the present state of affairs.

by: Elisa

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:48:48 +0000

I wrote a post a while back about how the Internet had become the stage for a new Puritan Reformation. Corporate trolling (in both senses of the term) is one of the chief means of hijacking the public sphere. Congress shouldn’t be worrying about how to discipline individuals - they should be worrying about how to curb the influence of corporations (and powerful agenda groups) from infringing on the freedom of the individual. I’d start by just making it illegal for people involved in a hiring process to Google, or otherwise use extraneous materials, in their decision-making process. That eliminates 90% of the social blackmail right there.

by: Miguel

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:43:23 +0000

The whole thing with tort reform is such hypocrsy. THe tort reform only inhibits the average person from iniating law suits. It doesn’t do anything about huge companies. The aforementioned article here is a perfect example. As for loosing privacy I googled myself and found that coogle knows what political organizations I was part of in college. I found that particularly scary as it can be used against me in a job interview.