The NY Times Sunday Magazine has a thought provoking article by Jeffrey Rosen entitled “The Web Means The End Of Forgetting”. It’s filled with lots of good points quite relevant to the film biz in this time of audience aggregation and automized taste curation.
Rosen points out:
The truth is we can’t possibly control what others say or know or think about us in a world of Facebook and Google, nor can we realistically demand that others give us the deference and respect to which we think we’re entitled. On the Internet, it turns out, we’re not entitled to demand any particular respect at all, and if others don’t have the empathy necessary to forgive our missteps, or the attention spans necessary to judge us in context, there’s nothing we can do about it.
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The EU has a whole team of privacy guys. Where’s someone like that in the US? We do have someone there to monitor privacy breaches that occur as a result of the Homeland Protection Act, but that is just the tip of the iceberg, and well, if he’s appointed by this administration, how are we supposed to trust him?
Of course, nothing will ever be as loyal and cuddly as PRIVACY. Do you remember what that was like, you know, back B.B. (Before Bush). Privacy was once FREEDOM’s sibling. Older brother, I think. Anyway if you want to check out what that Big Brother has become, check this out. Pretty scary. But definitely a good idea about how to take something we take all too much for granted, and get people righteously stirred up about it.
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