Re: [projectvrm] Privacy is SO overrated - Scoble

[Doc Searls < >]

A few months back a friend said, "(So and so) is a waste of time."

Much as I like Robert as a friend, for us he is a waste of time. Worse, what 
he and Ben Thompson (below) say about privacy amounts to trolling.

How many comments did Robert get under that post? Hundreds? How many man-days 
went into that thread, in sum? Did any of it move Robert — or any 
anti-privacy person — off their position?

The anti-privacy crowd doesn't get it, and they aren't going to get it. 
Worse, they produce nothing — especially for those they delight in offending.

So I recommend not feeding them.

Doc



On Jun 19, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Don Marti 
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> begin 
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>  quotation of Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 06:55:14AM +1000:
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>> The awful thing about the anti privacy brigade is that they seek to draw 
>> the line for everyone else.  That's just not fair. 
> 
> another one...
> 
>  Privacy is Dead
>  http://stratechery.com/2014/privacy-dead/
> 
>  "The net result is an iron circle in which
>  advertisers pay free apps and sites, who in turn
>  provide significant benefit to consumers, who
>  in exchange surrender targeting info about their
>  demographics and preferences:
> 
>  You cannot take away any one of these components
>  without taking away all of them. Unless we as a
>  society are willing to give up all of the benefits
>  provided by search, social networks, and the free
>  dissemination of information, then we will give up
>  our privacy."
> 
> It's hard to connect turning up the creepy to turning
> up the value of ad-supported content, though.  As a
> user, the more that I'm able to increase the cost
> of surveilling me, the more cost-effective it is
> to reach me by spending money on content instead.
> The better that surveillance gets, the easier to
> answer the question "what's the cheapiest, crappiest
> content he would ever actually read?"
> 
> -- 
> Don Marti                    
> http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
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