{"id":13862,"date":"2013-06-09T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13862"},"modified":"2013-06-09T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T13:37:04","slug":"our-surveillance-society-what-orwell-and-kafka-might-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/06\/09\/our-surveillance-society-what-orwell-and-kafka-might-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Surveillance Society: What Orwell And Kafka Might Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to RogerG for posting the NPR article Our Surveillance Society: What Orwell And Kafka Might Say<\/strong><\/a> on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n

And, even in the tradition of prophetic literature that warns of the dangers of bureaucratic power run amok, there is an awareness that the protection of the state, while intrusive, is necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This gives me an opportunity to comment on this latest brouhaha.<\/p>\n

I just do not understand what the hoopla about PRISM is all about.\u00a0 Suddenly the people have been awakened to the technology that is there for the big guys to use.\u00a0 The fact that Google, Amazon, Facebook, Verizon, AT&T, Walmart, etc, have all this data and use it to their advantage every day is what we should be addressing.\u00a0 They use it to concentrate market power in the hands of fewer and fewer organizations to the disadvantage of those that do not have the information.\u00a0 Collection of this data is not something we can stop.\u00a0 So we need to carefully consider how it ought to be regulated.<\/p>\n

Do not let big media and big politics divert your attention from the real issue.\u00a0 We have to wonder whose advantage is being served by bringing this issue to light in just this way at just this time.<\/p>\n

This NPR article serves the public interest better by bringing up the all the real issues for calmer consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to RogerG for posting the NPR article Our Surveillance Society: What Orwell And Kafka Might Say on his Facebook page. And, even in the tradition of prophetic literature that warns of the dangers of bureaucratic power run amok, there is an awareness that the protection of the state, while intrusive, is necessary. This gives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13864,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions\/13864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}