[open-science] Publishing curated email lists

Thu Jun 23 18:49:25 UTC 2016

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 8:07 PM, William Waites <ww at eris.okfn.org> wrote:

>
> The Internet is a public place. It has always been so.
>

I wouldn't go that far, in fact I spend part of my time hacking tech that
enables a decent level of privacy online (<http://hubzilla.org/>). But
public places on the Internet are not like your bar down the street,
they're more like a street where every other meter there's a tape recorder
pumping everything that is said to an archive in your public library which
corporations and the government are continuously massively consuming.

Digital technology allows us to create environments, and as expected
environments have consequences. If peple want a bar, they should go to a
bar. A public mailing list is not a bar. Just as you can't turn a stage
into a confessionary, online public is not offline public - unles of course
you drink the kool-aid of Interetcorps. If you want a set of consequences,
you have to pick the particular environment that enables them. The current
fact that privicy facilitating technology is rarely adopted does not change
how privacy works online.

Anyway, sorry for the bluntness,
l
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