Wo. Blackout. I just tried to look up "Privacy" on Wikipedia and it's blacked out in protest of SOPA and PIPA. So I contacted my elected officials to let them know I'm very against those pieces of legislation. Just look at who supports SOPA and it's clear who wants this and why. Please take some action today, even something small like tweeting your legislators.
So I have to define Privacy myself today. Privacy...is it a right? It is an effort...to keep some pieces of information about one's self or one's interest contained. The opposite of public..publicity? Privacy is something that needs protection. Privacy is something that once you lose, you never really regain. Especially these days. If you disclose something or someone else discloses something about you on the internet, there it shall live forever, even if you take it down. It may float in cyberspace in some form an haunt you forever.
That's why we now hear ads on NPR for "ReputationDefender" and "Reputationmanagementconsults.com" We can't control our reputations without specialists, apparently. Because we may say something to someone somewhere, or say something in a blog post that we don't realize could be damaging. That's a sad but true fact. And something I have to think about every time I post here.
Mostly I have decided, Fuck it. I am not planning to run for political office in the future. Then I remember I hold a political office. If I should decide to run again, and my reputation hurts me, so be it.
Beyond my political aspirations, what else should I be considering in terms of my privacy? My family...My work...Not small things and all things I do consider.
But if I think about these things too much I would not write anything. Thinking about these things too much is what I did for so many years that I could not publish anything at all.
So I'm trying to think about privacy just enough. And still be real with you.
So I have to define Privacy myself today. Privacy...is it a right? It is an effort...to keep some pieces of information about one's self or one's interest contained. The opposite of public..publicity? Privacy is something that needs protection. Privacy is something that once you lose, you never really regain. Especially these days. If you disclose something or someone else discloses something about you on the internet, there it shall live forever, even if you take it down. It may float in cyberspace in some form an haunt you forever.
That's why we now hear ads on NPR for "ReputationDefender" and "Reputationmanagementconsults.com" We can't control our reputations without specialists, apparently. Because we may say something to someone somewhere, or say something in a blog post that we don't realize could be damaging. That's a sad but true fact. And something I have to think about every time I post here.
Mostly I have decided, Fuck it. I am not planning to run for political office in the future. Then I remember I hold a political office. If I should decide to run again, and my reputation hurts me, so be it.
Beyond my political aspirations, what else should I be considering in terms of my privacy? My family...My work...Not small things and all things I do consider.
But if I think about these things too much I would not write anything. Thinking about these things too much is what I did for so many years that I could not publish anything at all.
So I'm trying to think about privacy just enough. And still be real with you.
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