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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: The end of privacy... and so what comes next?
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Date: 5 Apr 91 20:46:02 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.201230.5970@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:
>The seductive order in which large institutions know everything about a
>person, for the person's own good, of course, is known as totalitarianism.

I'll agree that that can certainly lead to totalitarianism.

>Less politely, it's named fascism, for the strength that comes from every
>person/reed being bound into a unified worldview/fasces.

Hmm... I always thought fascism was an economic organization wherein
businesses are controlled, liscenced and regulated by the government
while not explicitly being owned by the governent, not specifically
anything to do with privacy.  Of course, this applies more and more to
the USA as people try to regulate themselves to perfect safety and
economic bliss by trusting people who best carry out their jobs via
falsehood.


Remember 
  In the USA:  us=Democracy, them=communist.
  In the USSR: us=Republic,  them=capitalists.
  (Of course, less now than 20 years ago)

I've never really understood why people fall for this doublespeak.  -- Darren

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