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Re:Lawrence Lessig: Technology Will Create New Models for Pr... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @07:33PM (#10815391)
We could probably limit reasons for defecting by living a less competitive lives, but that's dreams of a better-than-Star-Trek-level utopia. Incentives are hard.

As for the government - a world where only the government gets to have privacy is a scary nightmare. A world with a government as transparent as possible, maybe it's workable. Honestly, I don't know. I need to study this more. I just don't like the costs that come with seriously increasing the amount of individual privacy. And/or I have too much faith in the good side of our nature.

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Re:Lawrence Lessig: Technology Will Create New Models for Pr... by mindslight on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @08:11PM (#10815534)
Even Star Trek has ranks, and I wouldn't want to be a red shirt.

I don't have much faith in the bad side of our nature not showing. Groupthink is a hell of a drug.

As far as costs, there's a continuum and it certainly has a lot of low hanging fruit. Some of the most glaring privacy problems could be easily fixed by people simply exerting a modicum of self-actualization when choosing software.

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