Re: <nettime> The Cryptopticon

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

There isn't much there, other than expanding on the nature of the 
invisible threat with long term consequences, which is usually dealt 
with by the organized government (smoking, pesticides, etc.), except 
that in this case the government is the cause of the threat, so it won't 
touch it, and there is no other body of sufficient weight to do anything 
about it.

What would be more interesting to analyze is the phenomenally successful 
installation of social stigma against those who are effectively 
protecting themselves against organized surveillance. Unlike early users 
of car seat belts (before they were mandated) who were just weenies and 
chicken, people using PGP, one email per each service, tor, fake names, 
etc., are considered potentially dangerous psychopaths.

It will take more than one R. Nader to fix this one.

On 1/6/19, 17:46, jeremy bentham wrote:
> Why haven't this list's mavens de-, re-, pre- and otherwise-
> constructed Siva Vaidhyanathan's Cryptopticon?
>
> If for no other reason than it is such a lovely neologism?

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