Re: [projectvrm] Privacy is SO overrated - Scoble

 

More's the point, Scoble is yet another wealthy powerful white man. 

 

It's a classic feature of privacy "debates": some of the most ardent privacy cynics have been lucky enough in their lived experience to have never needed privacy. 

 

Cheers, 

 

Steve.

 

Stephen Wilson
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Doc Searls" < >
Sent: Thursday, 19 June, 2014 8:11am
To: "Nitin Badjatia" < >
Cc: "ProjectVRM list" < >
Subject: Re: [projectvrm] Privacy is SO overrated - Scoble

See Rule #10 here?

Robert no longer believes that. In fact he doesn't believe a lot of the stuff he said eleven years ago. (It's cool. Most of us veer. We call it growth.) 

But Robert really does believe the unexamined life is not worth living — so long as Google, Facebook and other surveillance & personalization robots do the examining.

He's like Cypher in The Matrix: a red-pill swallower who would rather be jacked into The Matrix than live as a free and independent soul.

Maybe that's a bit harsh. I'm sure he doesn't believe he's giving up his independence, much less his soul, and maybe he's right that our feudal overlords have our best interests (which they know better than we do) at heart.

And, even though I'm one of those "privacy advocates" he's tired of, we remain friends.

And maybe he's right that he speaks for a bigger crowd than ours.

But minorities make revolution. And that's our job here.

Doc

On Jun 18, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Nitin Badjatia < "> > wrote:

I can't remember the last time Robert was relevant, but I suppose he's ok exposing himself...um, or something like that...
http://boingboing.net/2014/06/17/robert-scoble-so-tired-of-th.html