“Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.” - Marlon Brando (of all people!!!)
The first part of this blog, I spoke about the general ills of the facebook site itself. Now, we can talk about the men (mark zuckerberg, peter thiel and james breyer) who again, names I will not capitalize due to their wickedness) who designed and and carry out this example of our loss of privacy in the US.
mark zuckerberg is the founding father of facebook. zuckerberg co-founded facebook in 2004 with fellow computer science classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard. He is currently one of the youngest billionaires in the world with personal wealth of US$4 billion in 2010. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which zuckerberg called the next logical step. At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join. facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft. facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail address. In October 2008, facebook announced that it was to set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. facebook has been highly used in the years 2009-2010. It has crossed the visits of Google in some continents. And recently, Facebook.com was the top social network across eight of individual markets in the region, Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, while other brands commanded the top positions in certain markets, including Google-owned Orkut in India, Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea and Yahoo!’s Wretch.cc in Taiwan.
However, there is a dark side to the success story that's been spreading across the Internet. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links facebook to the CIA and the US Department of Defense.The CIA is using a facebook group to recruit staff for its very sexy sounding National Clandestine Service. Checking out the job ads on facebook does require a facebook login, so if you haven't joined the site - or are worried that CIA spooks will start following you home from work, DON'T APPLY. facebook's first round of venture capital funding ($US500,000) came from former Paypal CEO peter thiel. Author of anti-multicultural tome 'The Diversity Myth', he is also on the board of radical conservative group VanguardPAC.The second round of funding into facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager james breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company's key areas of expertise are in "data mining technologies". breyer also served on the board of R&D firm BBN Technologies, which was one of those companies responsible for the rise of the Internet. Dr Anita Jones joined the firm, which included Gilman Louie. She had also served on the In-Q-Tel's board, and had been director of Defence Research and Engineering for the US Department of Defense.She was also an adviser to the Secretary of Defence and overseeing the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is responsible for high-tech, high-end development. It was when a journalist lifted the lid on the DARPA's Information Awareness Office that the public began to show concern at its information mining projects.Wikipedia's IAO (Information Awareness Office) page says: "the IAO has the stated mission to gather as much information as possible about everyone, in a centralised location, for easy perusal by the United States government, including (though not limited to) Internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver's licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and any other available data.".Not surprisingly, the backlash from civil libertarians led to a Congressional investigation into DARPA's activity, the Information Awareness Office lost its funding. Now the Internet conspiracy theorists are citing facebook as the IAO's new mask. Parts of the IAO's technology round-up included 'human network analysis and behaviour model building engines', which Facebook's massive volume of neatly-targeted data gathering allows for.facebook's own Terms of use state: "by posting Member Content to any part of the Web site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reformat, translate, excerpt and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorise sub-licenses of the foregoing.Plus, in its equally interesting privacy policy: "facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the facebook service through the operation of the service (eg. photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience. By using facebook, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States." Is the CIA really providing the impetus and the funding behind the monster growth of this year's biggest dot com success story? Maybe only the men with the nice suits and ear pieces can answer that. zuckerberg commented in San Francisco in January 2010 at the Crunchie Awards that " “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people.” He went on to say that privacy was no longer a ‘social norm’ and had just evolved over time.“When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was, ‘why would I want to put any information on the internet at all? Why would I want to have a website?’.”- I do it because of the Freedom Of Speech-so I can I pee all over facebook's fire.
Check this article from the Guardian saying zuckerberg had to pay out 65 million so it would not come out that he stole facebook:
Privacy is a human guarantee and in the US it is protected under the 4th Amendment. However, between the NSA, CIA, facebook, Onstar, cell phones, GPS, group-infiltration, the Patriot Act, traffic and domestic spying cameras and the terrorist watch list-our government can watch you ANYWHERE ANYPLACE ANYTIME. As soon as this blog is published, the 4 square miles of computer under Fort Bragg in North Carolina picks it up and reads it, see what I write and then I go onto a mysterious list that will someday most likely put me into a FEMA camp for "re-education". Why aren't American bothered by their loss of privacy? Fear is not a reason to give up civil liberties-if you sacrifice liberty for protection, you didn't deserve the freedoms in the first place. Do not live in fear-just because CNN only shows the most horrible stories on the planet does not mean that you should give up your own control to a corrupt government to protect you from "terrorism"-the only terrorism that takes place in this country is toward its own citizens. If Thomas Jefferson was still alive he would beat the hell out of both dubya Bush and Obama in a bare-knuckle boxing match....and have enough energy to have a threesome with Condoleezza Rice and Michelle Obama (he takes his women like he does his coffee-black). Freedom is a God given right-if your agnostic or an atheist, then it is a human right to have freedoms. However, humans have a dark part of us that wants to oppress other for our own benefit. We need to give up this selfishness and realize we are all in this together. Live together, die alone.
mark zuckerberg is the founding father of facebook. zuckerberg co-founded facebook in 2004 with fellow computer science classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard. He is currently one of the youngest billionaires in the world with personal wealth of US$4 billion in 2010. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which zuckerberg called the next logical step. At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join. facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft. facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail address. In October 2008, facebook announced that it was to set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. facebook has been highly used in the years 2009-2010. It has crossed the visits of Google in some continents. And recently, Facebook.com was the top social network across eight of individual markets in the region, Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, while other brands commanded the top positions in certain markets, including Google-owned Orkut in India, Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea and Yahoo!’s Wretch.cc in Taiwan.
However, there is a dark side to the success story that's been spreading across the Internet. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links facebook to the CIA and the US Department of Defense.The CIA is using a facebook group to recruit staff for its very sexy sounding National Clandestine Service. Checking out the job ads on facebook does require a facebook login, so if you haven't joined the site - or are worried that CIA spooks will start following you home from work, DON'T APPLY. facebook's first round of venture capital funding ($US500,000) came from former Paypal CEO peter thiel. Author of anti-multicultural tome 'The Diversity Myth', he is also on the board of radical conservative group VanguardPAC.The second round of funding into facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager james breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company's key areas of expertise are in "data mining technologies". breyer also served on the board of R&D firm BBN Technologies, which was one of those companies responsible for the rise of the Internet. Dr Anita Jones joined the firm, which included Gilman Louie. She had also served on the In-Q-Tel's board, and had been director of Defence Research and Engineering for the US Department of Defense.She was also an adviser to the Secretary of Defence and overseeing the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is responsible for high-tech, high-end development. It was when a journalist lifted the lid on the DARPA's Information Awareness Office that the public began to show concern at its information mining projects.Wikipedia's IAO (Information Awareness Office) page says: "the IAO has the stated mission to gather as much information as possible about everyone, in a centralised location, for easy perusal by the United States government, including (though not limited to) Internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver's licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and any other available data.".Not surprisingly, the backlash from civil libertarians led to a Congressional investigation into DARPA's activity, the Information Awareness Office lost its funding. Now the Internet conspiracy theorists are citing facebook as the IAO's new mask. Parts of the IAO's technology round-up included 'human network analysis and behaviour model building engines', which Facebook's massive volume of neatly-targeted data gathering allows for.facebook's own Terms of use state: "by posting Member Content to any part of the Web site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reformat, translate, excerpt and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorise sub-licenses of the foregoing.Plus, in its equally interesting privacy policy: "facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the facebook service through the operation of the service (eg. photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience. By using facebook, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States." Is the CIA really providing the impetus and the funding behind the monster growth of this year's biggest dot com success story? Maybe only the men with the nice suits and ear pieces can answer that. zuckerberg commented in San Francisco in January 2010 at the Crunchie Awards that " “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people.” He went on to say that privacy was no longer a ‘social norm’ and had just evolved over time.“When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was, ‘why would I want to put any information on the internet at all? Why would I want to have a website?’.”- I do it because of the Freedom Of Speech-so I can I pee all over facebook's fire.
Check this article from the Guardian saying zuckerberg had to pay out 65 million so it would not come out that he stole facebook:
Privacy is a human guarantee and in the US it is protected under the 4th Amendment. However, between the NSA, CIA, facebook, Onstar, cell phones, GPS, group-infiltration, the Patriot Act, traffic and domestic spying cameras and the terrorist watch list-our government can watch you ANYWHERE ANYPLACE ANYTIME. As soon as this blog is published, the 4 square miles of computer under Fort Bragg in North Carolina picks it up and reads it, see what I write and then I go onto a mysterious list that will someday most likely put me into a FEMA camp for "re-education". Why aren't American bothered by their loss of privacy? Fear is not a reason to give up civil liberties-if you sacrifice liberty for protection, you didn't deserve the freedoms in the first place. Do not live in fear-just because CNN only shows the most horrible stories on the planet does not mean that you should give up your own control to a corrupt government to protect you from "terrorism"-the only terrorism that takes place in this country is toward its own citizens. If Thomas Jefferson was still alive he would beat the hell out of both dubya Bush and Obama in a bare-knuckle boxing match....and have enough energy to have a threesome with Condoleezza Rice and Michelle Obama (he takes his women like he does his coffee-black). Freedom is a God given right-if your agnostic or an atheist, then it is a human right to have freedoms. However, humans have a dark part of us that wants to oppress other for our own benefit. We need to give up this selfishness and realize we are all in this together. Live together, die alone.
"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.” - Baha'u'llah quotes
“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.” - Leo Tolstoy
“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.” - Leo Tolstoy
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