From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Sat Oct 02 1999 - 11:50:44 MDT
> > I for one think its not an extropic way. It is a transhumanist way. The
> > difference being that this is more of a borganistic idea than an
> > extropian one.
>
> Hmm, even if it [the surveillance] is private and distributed?
> Surely that could count as an expression of spontaneous
> order?
"Privacy" is one of those tough questions of libertarian thought.
Some claim it as a right, but purists would disagree. Recording
someone's actions in public or on private land other than eirs is
/not/ a trespass. Even if there is some "right" to privacy, there
is certainly no entitlement to it: no one should be coerced not
to videotape and record anything ey pleases, record phone calls
ey is a participant in, use personal information given to em for
any purpose, ask any question on a job application, etc.
The only reason most libertarians think privacy is a good thing
is that the major snoop is government, and we want them to have
less power. I have to agree with Brin, though, that the way to
fight back is to point the cameras back at them, not turn them off.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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