RE: Is Our Fourth Amendment Right Vanishing in the Digital Age?
In the digital realm, the Fourth Amendment is smashed. We have everything we do online categorized by the silos and sold to advertisers or anyone else willing to pay a price for the date. Snowden showed that the government, despite their denials, spy on people for no reason (and without a warrant). This is only continuing.
It is one of the reasons I am for more things being on the blockchain. While not perfect, and still a major security risk I prefer decentralized searches, my files stored in a decentralized manner, and to interact with people on a decentralized social networking system. Technology made it easier for the powers that are to walk all over the average person. Now, technology is moving in a manner that is allowing us to reverse this trend.
Thank you for posting.
I 100% agree. These decentralized platforms and currencies on the blockchain allow for everyone who uses it to be accountable for their own actions. The fact that the majority of everything is open source is also is a refreshing change from the rest of the popular websites and applications.
Refreshing but is it the answer?
Microsoft sold millions of versions of Office even though there were free versions out there. Hell even Wondows comes at a price when Ubuntu and others OS were free.
Open source is wonderful yet it seems to have a challenge capturing the masses. Even this site, while still new, pales in comparison to the centralized, sell your information to anyone willing to pay silos like Facebook and Reddit. I guess we can only control ourselves and inform others of what we are doing.
My challenge is to get as much of my online life onto decentralized platforms. I am excited for Brave payments to start and for a decentralized search engine to come out.
Google and Facebook, in their present forms, had their time. It is now the era of a new internet.
Thank you for your reply.
You made some valid points... What are some other decentralized websites you frequent? I've never heard of Brave either. What's that?
Brave is a browser, that is out, which blocks all the ads and trackers. It was developed by the same individual who started the Mozilla project. He wants a browser that reduces all the garbage that takes place on the internet via our browser. They are also going to implement a token program which alters the advertising model. If you are willing to allow ads through your browser, they will have to pay you. Advertisers will be have to pony up to the people who actually are affected and not a third party like google.
It could totally change the advertising model.
sounds interesting! I'll check it out! :)
By the way, you should post some more technology stuff....you seem to have an understanding about it.
There are a lot of bits and bytes people on here posting about gadgets. That is fine yet not my thing. I prefer the broader spectrum of tech...how it is affecting society and the future.
Hey thanks :) I love reading about it but I usually dont have a lot to say about a certain topic to write a post about it. I did write about transhumanism a few weeks ago if you're interested in reading it!