Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

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Of immediate concern is the fight against ignorance, a fight that requires gaining the public's attention and persuasively arguing that liberty of thought necessitates bolstered Internet privacy rights. Absent a victory in this fight, the world as we know it will experience irreversible change. \ No newline at end of file

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Yes, this is the way to bring John Stuart Mill into it. You might have wanted to explain a little more about how much of the process of nudging people gently back into place will be done by machine in such a society, and why this form of mechanized social control that affects microbehavior macrosocietally is a further step in Mill's sequence. You might also want to take account of the unconscious parts of human mental activity, the predominant parts, about which Mill is not very interested, but which are surely highly relevant, for it is by efforts to interact with a predictable individual unconscious that the pinnacle of mechanized social control is achieved. It is, after all, the real totalitarianism—as Orwell and his imitator Burgess both recognized, long after the Roman Catholic Church brought the system into working order—to have succeeded in harnessing each human's unconscious as the jailer.

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