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Secret Services reading with us?
Not only journalists and personnel managers brows the net as they like it, but also secret services as well, all of them will read along with us, if not supposing or realizing irrelevance. It's nothing to be surprised about, since secret services are made for these purposes. A secret service has to trace out public enemies, inside and outside the country, and simply has to eliminate them. Internet only makes this more simply.
Wether or not CIA & Co will respect according laws in doing so, no thriller will teach us, but history. Secret services possibly think to be protecting higher values than law, or that justice should become adapted to their special needs and activities on time. In this case, again secret services possibly seem to be right, as history tells us, because they are provided with special laws for the nation's safety, while their agenda anyway is imposed to military secrecy all the time.
Social networks, mobil-telefons, email-accounts, websites, all of these are open barn-doors. Whoever wants, can nest in, and therefore no one is safe in there. In spite of, such barns are existing everywhere, and who feels able to, will certainly walk in and out. So what shall we do? Should we do without the web?
If we dispense with the web, we do without an instrument, nowadays the first one to share knowledge. No doubt this knowledge varies between „information“ and rubbish, but still it stays the distinction between wrong or wright, it stays the foundation of decision. To exchange knowledge, is to share decisions. When decisions are shared, a common knowledge will arise, and a common ability to decide as well. And even more: only if decisions are shared, knowledge can grow after all. To raise the power of judgement an exchange of decisions is requested.
If we did without the web, we would stop to globally share actual knowledge in a very short time, and stop to commonly raise global knowledge along with the power of judgement. We might return to books and papers, but this media are only regionally effective, are less actual, and their content will already have been prepared by publishers and editors to meet and enforce most reader's consensus. Translations need a long time and are only undertaken if promising enough profit. Many young people meanwhile think it's rather strange to buy a book, or to pay for a paper, and anyway information was for nothing, or at least free. In this state of affairs, I think we should not do without the web, but use it properly, which is, should make it our own as soon and far as possible.
But secret services will read with us?
If some authorities or secret services are reading with us, this circumstance certainly needs to be regarded, namely in that way, that only lawful items and content can be found on the respective website. When citizens come to a personal opinion under their freedom of mind, and mutually share this opinion, no one would turn to a public enemy only for this reason, but simply will turn to a mature citizen. Responsible citizens do know how to censor themselves so far, as not to get deprived of their civic rights. Mature citizens won't act illegally, or won't propagate anything unlawful on the web.
A conduct of this kind is part of the political culture, which shall be acquired on UsRulingUs, since it became globally necessary. A situation, where all meaningful media are in the hands of power, requests a new political culture. Public consensus should not rely on filtered and pre-cooked information, but on fresh knowledge and skilled power of judgement. In a world of crises and upheaval of power and riches, I think this is absolutely necessary to keep alive in the long run.
Aren't usernames sort of an excuse?
I don't think so. Though only usernames are engaged for the sake of privacy, still email contacts might be stored and observed by authorities in many countries. As a precaution, every unlawful or immoral content will be removed by UsRulingUs, after being noticed of. In spite of, still any author can be researched, named and hold responsible by authorities. Everyone posting, or sharing content, or pages, must be fully aware of this circumstances.
So the forum will hold only „transparent“ members?
Neither. Protection of privacy will work as long as authorities don't interfere. But to get hold of legal names and personal data, an authority needs a proper court order, at least in constitutional states. A decree of court on his part needs an unlawful act, or at least a reasonable suspicion. Finally, if someone intends to act unlegally, he will expose himself to legal persecution anyway. If so, acting online or offline makes not much difference and stays only his own business.
On UsRulingUs it is prohibited to act unlawfully. So, if an authority gets hold of personal data, due to this rule, no punishable delicts should be discoverable at all. Suspected persons need to be released and their protection of privacy will be restored.
But how about in dictatorships?
When authorities interfere without a court order, it will be due to arbitrariness. Who lives in a country permitting or supporting such official activities, needs to „send his vote to exile“, which is, he or she shall find an apt substitute in another country. For this reason the networks refer to language families.
What happens, if UsRulungUs gets prohibited?
Then, of course, the forum will be closed. But this defeat can be reduced to the countries who hold the ban. It might be helped by the language families and other sections of GOL, growing up here and there on their own. If a working example finds adherents, it enters and shapes the way of living. In periods of violence some breaks will occur, but they will necessarily be terminated, since life meanwhile needs to go on in the shadow of power, and this way will proceed anyhow.
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