{"id":272,"date":"2015-03-23T02:50:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T02:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/23\/meet-the-man-whose-utopian-vision-for-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:14","slug":"meet-the-man-whose-utopian-vision-for-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/03\/23\/meet-the-man-whose-utopian-vision-for-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man whose utopian vision for the Internet conquered, and then warped, Silicon Valley – The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Barlow once wrote that \u201ctrusting the government with your privacy is like having a Peeping Tom install your window blinds.\u201d But the Barlovian focus on government overreach leaves its author and other libertarians blind to the same encroachments on our autonomy from the private sector.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Libertarians didn’t develop this blind spot because they saw technology as a liberating force. They only ever saw encroachments on the individual by the state and all too often equated the state’s regulation of corporations with the regulation of individuals. The control of corporate power over individuals was never their concern. The utopia that many of them still expect technology to deliver remains untouched by the messy reality that the rest of us live in, the one where their darling “market” transfers wealth only upward and private money ensures that the state maintains this system.<\/p>\n

Meet the man whose utopian vision for the Internet conquered, and then warped, Silicon Valley – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barlow once wrote that \u201ctrusting the government with your privacy is like having a Peeping Tom install your window blinds.\u201d But the Barlovian focus on government overreach leaves its author and other libertarians blind to the same encroachments on our … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-libertarian","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1558,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/13\/little-gitmo\/","url_meta":{"origin":272,"position":0},"title":"‘Little Gitmo’","author":"aslam","date":"July 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesWhen an upstate imam named Yassin Aref was convicted on a suspect terrorism charge, he was sent to a secretive prison denounced by civil libertarians as a Muslim quarantine.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":355,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/12\/17\/if-you-think-it-through-actually-when-a-zebra\/","url_meta":{"origin":272,"position":1},"title":"If you think it through,\u2026","author":"aslam","date":"December 17, 2014","format":"quote","excerpt":"If you think it through, actually, when a zebra is being eaten alive by a lion, that\u2019s one of the worst experiences that you could possibly have. 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