Why does "Axis" rhyme with
“access”?
Yahoo/Axis – A new kind of browser or a new Big Brother form
of accessing you and your browsing habits?
Yahoo seeks
to shake up search, Web browsing
"Searching
through links has outlived its utility," said Shashi Seth, a Yahoo Inc. senior vice president. "Users are
demanding more now because we are all short on time."
How sad that we are all “short on time.” We have always led
busy lives, but in the ‘70s when I had an hour commute each way to work, I
still had time for after-work sports, my kids’ cub scouts, creative projects,
family dinners … what happened to our world?
And they continued ... In an effort to make
Axis even more useful, Yahoo plans to store
search activity on its servers so users can have access to their past
activity on any computer or mobile device where they log in. Axis will accept the logins that people use on Google and Facebook, as well as Yahoo.
What did I tell you? This is the final paragraph in the
article about Axis—I had not read that far when I made the Big Brother
statement above … check it out … http://yhoo.it/Js0A00
And voilà! They have all of your social networking
information … my question is, how did we get here?!
Who ARE those idiots who first decided their privacy is not
worth a plug nickel and made the social networks believe NO ONE cares about the
multitudes of Big Brothers now spying on EVERYTHING we do? You think I sound
paranoid? For good reason.
From 2009:
A popular video
circulating on You Tube shows the discovery of a spy camera and a microphone
hidden inside a digital TV converter box. Such devices are part of a government
and industry surveillance program that is undoubtedly connected to the forced
digital TV switchover being rolled out in the UK and US.
The camera and
microphone were hidden inside a MAGNAVOX TB110MW9 Digital to Analog Converter
box. We are not suggesting that every digital cable box has a spy camera and
microphone inside, so ripping open your cable box is not a good way to prove
this one way or another - but the fact remains that companies like Google and Comcast have openly announced that
they plan to use hidden cameras and microphones inside their products to spy on
consumers.
(“Hidden Spy Camera & Mic Found
Inside Digital TV Box,” Paul
Joseph Watson, Propaganda Matrix, http://bit.ly/68UHCe)
The converters were distributed in both the US and the UK, where
government and commercial surveillance is even more prevalent. The majority of
UK spying is supposedly to curb crime (as our officials try to tell us, as
well). But this comment wonders … “Despite
millions of cameras, Britain’s crime rate is not significantly lower than
comparable countries that do not have such a vast surveillance state.” (“How
many cameras do we need? And are we protected?” SpyCameraCCTV.com
– The Blog, 02/22/12 http://bit.ly/AvBl07)
Yahoo is not the first by far, to sneak around our private
lives. And they damn sure won’t be the last. Again, I just want to know who the
idiots are who allowed this to happen. It sure wasn’t me or anyone I know—must be
the politicians we elect to “protect and serve” our needs. Ha!
Have you seen the controversial TV series, Person of
Interest? You … your friends … your loved ones … are being watched on
every corner in every square quarter-mile of the country. No joke.
1984. Orwell was
soooo right—just decades ahead of his time. He saw the writing on the wall—or rather,
the eyeball on the wall.
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