nerrawg
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JPNpower :
However, I can challenge your idea that privacy always leads to good results. privacy=anonymity. And the mask of anonymity has created a monster. I can think of two example off of the top of my head.
The first is fiction. In the story "Lord of the flies", the mask of anonymity creates a monster out of little children, making them try to murder each other.
The second, and my main point, is in reality, in modern Japan. The internet has created an extreme world of privacy and anonymity. People use account names such as JPNpower, or Nerrawg to hide their ideas and actions. This has lead to multiple instances of forced suicide, mostly in young people, such as high schoolers/college students, and young sallarymen. Hidden behind privacy, people do and say such horrid things that they would never say to anybody's face. People gather around in a circle of hate, and inevitably force somebody into killing themselves. When they realize what evil they have done, they don't repent, and repeat the process over again. Such is the horror of privacy.
The first is fiction. In the story "Lord of the flies", the mask of anonymity creates a monster out of little children, making them try to murder each other.
The second, and my main point, is in reality, in modern Japan. The internet has created an extreme world of privacy and anonymity. People use account names such as JPNpower, or Nerrawg to hide their ideas and actions. This has lead to multiple instances of forced suicide, mostly in young people, such as high schoolers/college students, and young sallarymen. Hidden behind privacy, people do and say such horrid things that they would never say to anybody's face. People gather around in a circle of hate, and inevitably force somebody into killing themselves. When they realize what evil they have done, they don't repent, and repeat the process over again. Such is the horror of privacy.
Those are important points, but I think they have more to do with personal privacy and family privacy than the Corporate or financial privacy that I was getting at. I would however be interested in hearing your opinions on whether publicizing some of these currently private instances would be a viable solution, and if so, how such a solution would be effectively implemented. I am currently of the opinion that bullying and family intrigues that may result in horrific criminal acts will probably not at all be the focus of the NSA's surveillance programme and that it will do little if anything to prevent these outcomes