Very true. We need this very powerful medium to express our thoughts, ideas and even organize ourselves as a collective. At a cost. The cost of privacy in most cases.
Even as I speak, I'm dealing with a mysterious virus that shows up after I've written a few words, either in my Email application or online. It has managed to bypass Kaspersky, and all the virus protection I have. It changes all type, fonts etc to non intelligible marks and symbols. Luckily, I cloned my harddrive several times, in preparation for such an event. But it's still an aggravation.
I also keep my more important work, offline and I never connect them to the internet. While the internet is a very important medium, it is a very dangerous one as well. The spyware programs some Wives install on their Husband's computers to find out if they are cheating on them in chatrooms...is not even the tip of the iceberg.
When they charged those 4 Brothas with a so-called Terror Plot to blow up JFK Airport, I wondered if I was one of the only people paying attention. That "information" was inquired by tapping their cell phones. Homeland Insecurity did that. Now I wonder what else are they doing.
I already know there's an organization that monitors certain groups online. In some cases, we may actually be safer here- speaking as we do, in public and in the open. People with something to hide do just that. They hide. I'm sure many of us are in favor of "all this talk" leading to action and change. And sometimes our talk, can lead to a better understanding for them, of how we think, and how we "tick."
I'm an Agent for our Ancestors, never for the enemy...there's is nothing that they can to do me that my Ancestors cannot heal. Some of them might've learned enough Ebonics in slang college to be code breakers, but sometimes our meaning is even deeper than the code.
Even as I speak, I'm dealing with a mysterious virus that shows up after I've written a few words, either in my Email application or online. It has managed to bypass Kaspersky, and all the virus protection I have. It changes all type, fonts etc to non intelligible marks and symbols. Luckily, I cloned my harddrive several times, in preparation for such an event. But it's still an aggravation.
I also keep my more important work, offline and I never connect them to the internet. While the internet is a very important medium, it is a very dangerous one as well. The spyware programs some Wives install on their Husband's computers to find out if they are cheating on them in chatrooms...is not even the tip of the iceberg.
When they charged those 4 Brothas with a so-called Terror Plot to blow up JFK Airport, I wondered if I was one of the only people paying attention. That "information" was inquired by tapping their cell phones. Homeland Insecurity did that. Now I wonder what else are they doing.
I already know there's an organization that monitors certain groups online. In some cases, we may actually be safer here- speaking as we do, in public and in the open. People with something to hide do just that. They hide. I'm sure many of us are in favor of "all this talk" leading to action and change. And sometimes our talk, can lead to a better understanding for them, of how we think, and how we "tick."
I'm an Agent for our Ancestors, never for the enemy...there's is nothing that they can to do me that my Ancestors cannot heal. Some of them might've learned enough Ebonics in slang college to be code breakers, but sometimes our meaning is even deeper than the code.