{"id":1290,"date":"2018-10-13T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T17:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/wordpress\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2018-10-13T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T17:10:40","slug":"withdraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2018\/10\/13\/withdraw\/","title":{"rendered":"Withdraw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve really made an effort to really withdraw from social media.\u00a0 There are many reasons for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. \u00a0Google and Facebook.\u00a0 I was utterly disgusted listening to the Senate testimony\u00a0a few weeks ago.\u00a0 The company who used to have the principle of “don’t be evil,” is now okay doing things with repressive governments.\u00a0 I also noticed that GMail, and Facebook were suggesting friends I’d never even considered connecting with apart from private emails on 757.org.<\/a>\u00a0 So, the bits of doubt were planted early.\u00a0 The testimony, the actions of perhaps less-than-honest mining, and politicans who purportedly represent me<\/strong>, I decided to really curtail things.\u00a0 Well, that combined with;<\/li>
  2. Politics.\u00a0 I am at odds with the strains of jubilation from people who view me as a heretic<\/a>, as well as the even older people who trot out other stupid stuff.\u00a0 I don’t care.<\/em>\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Everybody thinks I’m evil because… Again, I don’t care.<\/em>\u00a0 I am who I am.\u00a0 I explore ideas that are contrary to my conclusions.\u00a0 But I shouldn’t be able to do that.\u00a0 That I might access things not approved by the commissars is a problem.\u00a0 I’m free to leave. Well, for now.<\/del>\u00a0 The strike-through is intentional;\u00a0 I can leave, and there’s nothing that can stop me.\u00a0 This is a problem for both businesses and governments.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 The Internet, and the math that underlies it<\/em>, are things that business and government can’t surpress without resorting to the ultimate weapon of government — force.\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 Whatever.\u00a0<\/li>
  3. When I chose to withdraw from FB, I jettisoned also G+, and LinkedIn.\u00a0 G+, of course, had a similar data breech to FB.\u00a0 I was tempted to say, “purportedly it’s shut down,” but i looked around, and it’s still up.\u00a0 For now<\/a>. I’ve complained about LinkedIn before, but it seems to be nothing but recruiters these days.\u00a0 (Aside:\u00a0 the legion of corporate recruiters is likely attributable to the major increase of folks graduating with Arts degrees.\u00a0 Spell too well to work as a Barista?\u00a0 Don’t worry.\u00a0 You can work in tech staffing!!1!)<\/li>
  4. Google’s decision to push all traffic in Chrome to SSL is a really bad idea.\u00a0 Hey, it’s sekur, so nobody can look at it.\u00a0 Except, of course, the totes didn’t use to be evil company, and the NSA.\u00a0 You’ve also killed off all the sorts of things developed to make Intertubing faster since the web came into being.\u00a0 I really don’t care that my people can see what banner ads I’m seeing, and those might be cached somewhere else.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I’m preparing to write again in November.\u00a0 The summer writing went well this year, but I didn’t feel the need to do it.\u00a0 There’s periods at work when I’m very busy these days, and don’t have the urge to write to kill time.\u00a0 But I do miss writing.\u00a0 As the year ends, I might have more to say.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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