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Shcho23 Posted 10 years ago
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What is the point of this text?
Sorry for the lengthy quote.
Quote: The gap between the reality of online life and how we experience it prevents our discussion of Internet privacy. Consider email. People “know” email is not private. And yet many will use email, at least sometimes, for intimate correspondence. Over decades, I have asked why. The answer is always the same: When you stare at a screen, you feel completely alone. That sense of being alone with the person to whom you are writing ? as though you were the only two people in the world ?often blocks out what you know to be true. Email can be seen; it will be stored; and then it can be seen again. The seeming ephemerality of what is on the screen masks the truth: What you write is not erasable. More generally, the experience of the net undermines the reality of the net.
What is the point of this text?
That we think of the net which is not private as the one which is private?
And since when has email not been "private"?
Finally, is this text good and to the point?
Thank you so much in advance.
Quote: The gap between the reality of online life and how we experience it prevents our discussion of Internet privacy. Consider email. People “know” email is not private. And yet many will use email, at least sometimes, for intimate correspondence. Over decades, I have asked why. The answer is always the same: When you stare at a screen, you feel completely alone. That sense of being alone with the person to whom you are writing ? as though you were the only two people in the world ?often blocks out what you know to be true. Email can be seen; it will be stored; and then it can be seen again. The seeming ephemerality of what is on the screen masks the truth: What you write is not erasable. More generally, the experience of the net undermines the reality of the net.
What is the point of this text?
That we think of the net which is not private as the one which is private?
And since when has email not been "private"?
Finally, is this text good and to the point?
Thank you so much in advance.
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shcho23 What is the point of this text? That we think of the net which is not private as the one which is private? Yes.
- shcho23 What is the point of this text?
- That we think of the net which is not private as the one which is private?
- Yes.
- That is basically the point, though there are not two internets, one public and one private.
- We think of the internet as private when, strictly speaking, it is not.
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shcho23What is the point of this text? That we think of the net which is not private as the one which is private?Yes. That is basically the point, though there are not two internets, one public and one private. We think of the internet as private when, strictly speaking, it is not.
shcho23And since when has email not been "private"?
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