[ExI] ​Re: possible scheme for privacy

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:03 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *>…* *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] ​Re: possible scheme for privacy
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> >…Is a bit of larceny built into all of us?  Yes.  And those who steal
> (yes, Spike, including those who try to rip off the IRS - not you of
> course) will value privacy.
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> BillW, I am not a particularly a privacy advocate, in fact I lean toward
> openness.  But I am an openness fanatic when it comes to government
> employees.  Government jobs carry the risk of enormous power, which always
> results in you-know-what.  So I would propose that all government
> bureaucrats’ email communications, twitter tweets, instant messaging,
> e-chat, radio, telephone, handwritten notes, smoke signals and subtle
> facial gestures, all of it be made public domain.
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> The light would shine like a laser, and it would result in the most
> transparent administration in history.
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> People ripping off the IRS is a problem.  The IRS ripping off people is a
> bigger problem.  Openness is the solution.
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​Yea!  and Hear Hear!  But, and it's a big but - people will lie, cheat,
steal, murder, in order for other people to think of them what they want
them to think.  Just look at the market for plastic surgery, baldness cures
and wigs, where the coverup is blatant.  Even very small weaknesses are
covered up, increasingly by men as well as women.

And if no one had any secrets, what would happen to the main habits, the
universal sideline, the obsession of us all:  gossip?  How much money is
made from it?  Mega billions.

So - it just ain't going to happen.​

​Imagine a male divulging to a potential date, mate, bed partner, that he
just loves pornography?  Doesn't matter that porn is loved by nearly all
the males and they will understand​.

We are born and bred liars, every one of us.

bill w

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