And in another way, we might realize when everyone is spying on everyone else that it doesn't really matter what people think of you, so you can be free to be who you are wherever you are so long as you harm none. Now you've faced your fear, and it turns out, it was your fear of letting others know who you are and accepting the consequences that comes with just being yourself.
You see, it's easy to take responsibility for yourself once you understand that what people think of you has nothing to do with you at all. Instead, who you are is defined by what you choose to do with the time you have. Now go out there and take responsibility for changing your world and stop blaming everyone else, including the government for what happens. The body of the people are the root of government, and a free country starts with active citizenship based on personal responsibility. When there are no more secrets, we have to take responsibility for our world, because the truth is that we only used the lies and secrets to avoid the responsibility of creating our own freedom to begin with. Once again, it was ourselves we were hiding from.
Article comments
1 - just me
"A federal judge has ordered Google to turn over all its search information for 50,000 web addresses to the government, in an effort to fight child pornography according to the Feds."
Maybe you should re-read the ruling. The judge ordered nothing of the sort. He ruled that Google must produce a sample of 50,000 web addresses from its index to the government, but specifically ruled that is does NOT have to produce any search queries related (or unrelated) to these addresses. After that ruling there's no privacy issue in this case.
2 - Just Chris
Doh! Correction upcoming soon.
3 - Dave Nalle
A federal judge has ordered Google to turn over 50,000 web addresses to the government, in an effort to fight child pornography according to the Feds.
You have some good general points in your article, but this initial statement is not correct. All Google is providing the feds with is tracking information on the browsing trends of their users, no specific user information and nothing personal on the users.
The current administration is very much pro internet privacy - one of their limited number of good positions.
Dave
4 - Larry Hosken
"setec astronomy" "too many secrets"