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Privacy was never meant to be. The current development with censorship and surveillance is a feature, not a bug. The internet is a continuation of Steven Newcomb’s “System of Domination,” and the System of Domination is real.
Indiana tested incoming waste soil for a diversity of chlorinated dioxins and dibenzofurans and found every one they looked for. But the governor claims the levels are acceptable.
All over our county, there are people caring for the land, the animals, the crops, the forests and their own yards. These are not some romantic visions of the past, these resources represent our livelihoods, our passions and generational hopes.
The anarchist vision is so profoundly at odds with everything on which our current society is based – all that domination, exploitation and control enforced by state-sanctioned violence – that it is not possible to be an anarchist and not feel alienated from that world and the mindset that uncritically accepts it.
While some of the ACS’ questions may seem fairly routine, the real danger is in not knowing why the information is needed, how it will be used by the government or with whom it will be shared.
Nearly all knowledge domains are captured and as a result we are still living in the 18th century while thinking that we are modern.