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The monster devouring us: Even the men who created the internet are beginning to fear its power to destroy our freedom | Mail Online

The monster devouring us: Even the men who created the internet are beginning to fear its power to destroy our freedom



By Michael Hanlon
Last updated at 8:07 AM on 03rd November 2009

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Fast-forward 40 years. It is November 2049 and privacy is a distant memory.

Every telephone call you make, every text you send on your mobile phone, every email and videocall, every financial transaction is recorded, stored, analysed and can potentially be used against you.
Each waking hour you are also deluged with marketing calls and sales pitches - which pop up on your mobile, your hand-held computer and even in your car.

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ItsRobsLife

The Mail = fear for the masses. The Mail Online = 24hr fear for the masses.
The irony of the article is probably lost on it's target audience.
If you're a consumer cow you're probably feeling irate by now, fight for your freedom to shop.

kmart

Pretty much spot on mate. Righteous Indignation Daily.

Mr R Sole

Anyone here in advertising???? Kill yourselves...no seriously it's not a joke, kill yourselves. Ah Bill's doing the anger thing, good market, shut up you f*cking scumbags, I'm not, Ah the trapped dollar. Our survey's have shown alot of people are feeling trapped right now, that's a good market Bill's doing a really good thing.




Sure he'd have something to say about all this! Probably the truth.....

StrontiumDog

There's definitely a future business opportunity for someone to set up an alternative to the internet as it is. A second system. Could be done. A free and open system.

I find all the data mining and censorship nowadays very concerning, it will only get worse too.

The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog

The Daily Mail's feedback column has given voice to thousands of intolerant nutters all reinforcing and validating their prejudices, that are spoon-fed to them by the publication. I presume they would characterise their anger as 'righteous'

crazy dog

Don't know why people dis the mail so much, for one thing it was about the only daily to run a long term campaign to bring the killers (white thugs) of Stephen Lawrence to justice, but posters call it the Daily hate, strange.

ItsRobsLife

Because it's the same paper and the same readership that gleefully backed the Criminal Justice Act and the Public Order Act to stop the rest of us enjoying our freedom, that now squeal like stuffed pigs over any infringement, real or percieved, to their own freedoms.

Ironic justice is about the best your going to get in the UK after the introduction of CJA and POA, and we're reaping it in spades.

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NickA

No, I'm not

Rural Surin

Nor I, Nick. Creating fear and control is the game. Simple, really - if you are concerned, don't imbibe.