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The Digital Invasion and its Cure
by sheila Tuesday, Nov 12 2019, 7:49pm
international / prose / post

Have you ever given a second thought to installing popular apps on smart devices? They usually flag the fact that they want access to your photos, docs, contacts and location but you agree, otherwise the app will not install. It's a type of forced blackmail as you want that app.

It all began many years ago with the Microsoft DOS operating system that shifted all responsibility for its design faults onto the user, and there were many design faults in those days, including trashing all your data and turning your hard drive into soup, which forced a complete format to restore functionality but goodbye data and if you installed the same DOS operating system then the crash would happen again. This was tantamount to buying a car with no guarantees whatsoever, like the wheels falling off or steering and brakes failing – of course no-one would buy such a vehicle under those circumstances, as functionality was implicit in production, we expected quality in production and usually got it otherwise the company would fail. But the digital world and its technologies avoided all such responsibility, in other words its 'brakes, wheels and throttle' could fail at any time but people accepted that risk and so began a type of fraudulent market inducing compliance.

However, that first (off-load) avoidance of responsibility did NOT involve surveillance and intrusions on privacy such as spying on personal messages/material and the monitoring of habits and movement; today it's all in the usage contract, which most people agree to it without a second thought it is nevertheless breaching basic rights. And so the outcome is plain you have freely sold your soul to the devil, as it has become known that these high tech companies abuse the data collected from users in order to increase their profits and more sinister and dastardly, in order to shape behaviours, emotion and thought. The later three 'functions,' are shaped by insidious algorithms, which influence is definitely not legally agreed to, so the companies which are known, Google and Facebook primarily, to abuse users rights are LIABLE in any court of law for using these destructive, shaping algorithms for their own purposes. But where are the class actions?

Sure, some governments that have not bowed to corporate manipulation and financial pressure have taken action against these companies particularly in Europe and of late in the USA but are these actions adequate, as today a huge lucrative market exists for illegal identifying and surveillance technologies, though this market is essentially serving the interests of criminal and totalitarian enterprises, and to note, governments and organised crime are the typical purchasers of these grossly illegal technologies as laws protecting citizens rights remain active in most developed countries.

So where does the above place free citizens in the digitally enslaving world today? Clearly in the courts – if any high tech company is in breach, as the largest are, now proven, then they are open to huge and costly litigation from public class actions. For instance did you give permission to have your medical records sold to the highest bidder, which information may disadvantage you in seeking gainful employment and maintaining a career/profession, and make no mistake, employment interviews are largely based on computer programs and their insidious algorithms regarding the 'suitability' of an applicant for a certain position in any field of endeavour. So it is easily appreciated how the intrusive digital invasion is adversely affecting everyone's lives, yet we do nothing about it, due mainly to the FACT that most governments are bought/influenced by big business today.

Nevertheless, the problem is solved by simple legislation, which action would enshrine into law certain prohibitions and huge penalties – very large fines and jail sentences – on any offending party or company. However, that real SOLUTION requires the election of representative politicians that serve the interests of the people not the corporations and big business! So any astute and honest politician with loads of integrity, such as America's Tulsi Gabbard, would be a shoe in for leadership – notwithstanding that it has become an imperative to boycott all major parties, as they have been bought, shaped and thoroughly corrupted by wealthy minority interests worldwide.

So if you wish to remove your digital chains then elect representative candidates to government whose platform and policies reflect YOUR wishes and release you from the new world of digital SLAVERY, among other necessary new directions.

Your quality of life and future circumstances remain in YOUR hands though you are led to believe otherwise (powerlessness and defeat) by the mass media and alternative media journalists such as Chris Hedges and his depressive ilk.

Reject all self-defeating media discourses, as CLEARLY the people remain the most POWERFUL social FORCE on the planet.

Go get 'em, Tulsi -- who is currently suing Google for bias among other beneficial policy pursuits in the interests of the people, nation and world. Support yourself by supporting Gabbard.