Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts

Monday, 30 April 2012

The Regime's Guide to Good Citizenship

The Regime is working hard to make life easier for Americans.  All they ask for is a little bit of unconditional compliance, but these pesky dissident Patriots keep throwing a wrench in the plans.  It is vital that you do not cause difficulty for the Regime – they are only trying to do what’s best for you.  Resistance is just plain rude.
This simple guide can assist you in avoiding a life of crime, punishable by indefinite detainment in the Gulag. The Regime is diligently searching for terrorists and you want to be above suspicion.  (Really – you do, because suspicion is all that is necessary for punishment and confinement these days.)
1.) Never protest, peacefully or otherwise.  The Federally Restricted Building and Grounds Improvement Act was put into place in order to protect our fearless leaders from actions that might publicly embarrass them.  Governing is a difficult job, and they don’t need the likes of you cluttering the steps of the Capitol with your signs.  It makes them feel badly.

2.) Don’t say mean things about the Regime on the internet.  It’s not only hurtful, it’s illegal.  Furthermore, due to CISPA, your internet providers and social networking sites now have a civic duty to snoop through you emails, status updates and forum posts, and then turn you in.  And while we’re on this topic, using technology to shield your IP address is childish and only makes you look suspicious.  If you don’t have anything to hide, then what are you so worried about?

3.) Never pay cash.  It’s a clear sign of dissident behaviour.  It’s very inconvenient for the Regime to track your spending if you don’t pay with a credit card or debit card.  How are they supposed to know who just bought more ammo or 100 pounds of rice if you pay cash for it?  Furthermore, you are cheating the big banks out of their fees and interest rates, which is very inconsiderate.

4.) Drink your fluoridated water.  The Regime is fluoridating the water for your own good.  The Regime wants you to have nice teeth.  You might have brain damage, cancer or thyroid issues, but your teeth will be rinsed with fluoride with every sip you take. Demanding that your municipalities stop adding fluoride to the local water supplies is very ungrateful.

5.) Allow the teachers to teach.  Teaching your kids at home is unnecessary and can cause a lot of problems for your child.  A child who is a critical thinker is anathema among his or her peers.  A child educated to do so is willful and disobedient, often rebelling when authority figures want to pat them down or handcuff them.  Children need to learn to follow instructions without hesitation, and if benefits no one if you teach them to question authority.  If a child needs to think for herself, the Regime will instruct her to do so.  It is not a parent’s job to empower a child or attempt to influence him with regard to moral issues.  The Regime has that covered.

6.) Don’t learn self defense techniques.  Self defense classes, practicing at a firing range and hand-to-hand combat training are an insult to the Regime.  The Regime will protect you.  You simply don’t need to take things this far.  If you want exercise, take up tennis.

7.) Do not videotape or otherwise record law enforcement officers or TSA employees.  It’s just plain offensive to act as though these agents of the Regime would do anything that requires documentation.  Sure, sometimes they get a little wound up and beat the daylights out of innocent people, but keep in mind, they are under a lot of pressure to stamp out domestic terrorism. And it isn’t going to kill you to get groped – it’s the price you have to pay for flying.  If you just stand there quietly with your eyes downcast, the molestation will be over much more quickly.

8.) Eat your GMO, Big Agri fruits and vegetables.  These foods have been specially formulated just for us.  Sure, they contain only nominal nutrients in comparison to organically grown produce, but it’s just an insult to try to grow your own because you think it’s “better”.  The FDA has worked hand in hand with Monsanto to provide you with a nutritionless abundance – the least you could do is eat it without complaint.  Furthermore, taking vitamins to make up for the lack of nutrition is just a slap in the face to poor Big Agri, and really messes up the plan to keep us weak, lethargic and malnourished.


9.) Take your medication.  The FDA and Big Pharma work hard to keep you medicated and calm.  There are many benefits to today’s medications.  First of all, a lifelong dependence on these medications allows a constant stream of income for Big Pharma.  Secondly, psychiatric medications in particular calm your thinking, leaving you content to watch Dancing with the Stars instead of searching those horrible thought-provoking alternative news sites that brazenly criticize the Regime.  For those of you who insist on taking herbal remedies instead of chemical medication, well, shame on you!  Don’t you realize that you are taking money out of the pockets of the wealthy owners of pharmaceutical companies?  You need to stop being so self-centered and consider others.  Take your pills!

10.)  Vaccinate your children.  Kids today are at risk for so many horrible things.  Thankfully, there is a vaccination for nearly every one of them.  Sure, some kids will become autistic and uncommunicative after receiving the jab, but at least they won’t get whooping cough. The Regime is aware that the HPV vaccine doesn’t work very well and causes side effects in a large percentage of the girls who receive it, but how else are they going to secretly sterilize our female population?

As you can see, it really isn’t that difficult to stay out of trouble.  If you only keep in mind that these rules are for your own good, you should have no trouble serenely being guided through life by the benevolent Regime.  You, too, can reap the benefits of unconditional obedience.

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Today Is the Last Day to Clean Up Your Computer History

As of tomorrow, March 1, 2012, the internet really is forever.

Tomorrow Google's new misnamed "privacy policy" goes into effect.  Google euphemistically calls this "treating you as one user".  Anything you view on Youtube, mail via Gmail or search on Google's search engine will be compiled to make a profile of you.

This change will be retroactive, meaning anything you've already viewed or searched will be included in this compilation of personal data.

It's a good idea to clean up your history today. Otherwise it will live on infinitely in Google's files.

First, clear your Google search history using these easy STEPS to erase your searches.  Even if you've cleared the cache in your computer, Google still has this data until you erase it.

Next, clear you Youtube viewing history.  This article will show you how.

Then look ahead to the new changes on Facebook.  You have until March 30 to remove anything that you do not want to become a permanent part of Facebook.  That is the day that FB's new "Timeline" becomes mandatory.

Any apps you have enabled will become permanent, showing up to display your "stripper name" or "which Twilight character are you?" at any given time.

Any angry or intoxicated post you may have made since you joined Facebook during your misspent youth becomes fair game and may appear at random on your personal page. 

Any photos that you have been tagged in may pop up to prompt a little trip down memory lane.  An embarrassing Christmas party photo could potentially haunt you.

Read this advice on making your Facebook history a bit less voyeuristic.

Cleaning these items up, of course, doesn't make them disappear altogether, because we all know the internet is the modern version of eternity.  However it will make things more difficult for the average stalker and will give you at least a thin shield as privacy policies become a lot less private.

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Open Letter to Google

Dear Google:

Well, you've done it now.  You've really ticked me off and I am breaking up with you.

Just because you are bigger than everyone else, it doesn't mean that I'm going to tolerate you bullying me and controlling me.

You have changed from being my friend, someone I could look to for answers, into being someone who tries to protect me from the truth "for my own good."  You have become a tool for the advancement of communism.

An example, you ask?

What about the fact that when I use you to search for information, you only provide me with the information YOU want me to have?  Despite the fact that Infowars and Prison Planet get more hits than many of the mainstream news affiliates, their information no longer comes up unless I specifically ask for them.  Google, you have actually removed Infowars from your aggregator system in an effort to censor what I read!!!!  Because of government pressure, even though the SOPA bill has been shelved, you are doing your own version of SOPA by blacklisting sites that do not toe the party line.

Google, you aren't my father.  I don't need you to sift through the information available and decide what I should be reading.  If you can't lay it out there and give me all of the pertinent information I'm requesting, you aren't someone that I want to be with.

Furthermore, Google, I believe that you are spying on me.  Don't try and deny it.  When I disable cookies in my control panel, I get messages from you saying I cannot access my own  blog without them.  This blog is my intellectual property and you have no right whatsoever to keep me from it.  But suddenly, it seems, I must permit you to spy on me and plant things in my computer to have access to my own blog. 

And there's more, Google.  Imagine my dismay when I read that you are considering policing us all by gathering information about "thought crimes".  Your possessiveness of my mind has to end.  I'm allowed to study things that interest me, like government conspiracies, the safety of the vaccines that I'm urged to give my children, or the veracity of current global warming theories.  Not only are you planning to "tell" on me for studying these things, you are planning on providing me with only the information YOU want me to have.  It's true....I read it HERE!!! You are pretending to be my friend when you are actually in the back pocket of the greedy elite like George Creepy Soros.

My fury with you, Google, is unmatched.  I refuse to be with someone who doesn't respect my intelligence as a person, who does not allow me the privilege of reading all of the information and sifting through it myself, and who has so little respect for my intellectual curiosity that they would provide me only with propaganda.

So, Google, this is how it is.

I'm leaving you.

I've found a new search engine.  I'm with startpage.com now, and you're just going to have to deal with it.  Yes, startpage may be a little slower and may not provide the same results, but at least I know that startpage can be trusted, unlike you, dear Google.

I've cancelled the ads on my blog - you can keep your money.  I'd write this blog on a pile of diner napkins and air drop them before I'd continue to take money from you.  Your ads, while lining my pockets, are also just a way for you to keep me under your thumb, abiding by your rules.

I'm searching for a new host for my blog because of your controlling ways.  It may not happen today or tomorrow, but I can easily foresee the day in which you begin censoring what I write, and that simply will not be tolerated.

I've removed your toolbar from my computer.  Yes, Google, it's packed up in a box and I'll leave it on the porch for you if you want to pick it up.  Otherwise, it goes out with the garbage on Friday.  I want nothing from you left in my computer.

It's over Google.

Daisy