Colin McEnroe Show: Scary, Scary Internet Regulations
A conversation about access and openness on the Internet.
Published: Aug 18, 2011
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Colin McEnroe Show: Scary, Scary Internet Regulations
If I told you last week that in response to political protest, a government shut down cell phone service, you would have thought I meant maybe Syria.
But by now you probably know it happened in downtown San Francisco where transit cops, worried about a protest that might disrupt rail service and aware that mobile devices played a major role in coordinating the recent British riots, shut the phones off.
The response has been a series of hacks, most recently into a database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association. The full names, e-mail addresses, home addresses, and passwords of transit cops were posted online.
Are there mounting threats to the openness of the Internet?
Today you'll hear a lot of arguments that there are. Even the shift from laptops to mobile devices, which are far more restrictable by the companies that issue them, tightens the knot a little.
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Hello Colin your show is
Hello Colin your show is really awesome,I and my friends enjoyed a lot and had already downloaded your show and given many copies to my other colleague,they too like it very much.you really rocksss!!!biogetica
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The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what’s happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else — we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge. Headlines, spin, soundbites. We want other people to tell us what we should think. It’s just cleaner and easier that way.
http://www.webpronews.com/sons-of-2011-08
and one more to think about --
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-...
Bravo! Great show Colin
BRAVO! Colin - I'm going to gather the family around the speakers to listen to this one! I caught the show whilst on the road the other day. I will forward it on to the school board as they contemplate "their" vision of technology (with our tax dollars) in our 21st century schools and the "need" for instant information and immediate communication...what - With SO SO SO many "BIG IDEAS" out there -- where will the goog take us!
My jury is still out...
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