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NathalieNouraFirstEssay 5 - 11 Jan 2022 - Main.NathalieNoura
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< | They Are Watching! | >
> | Same Surveillance, Different Day! | | | -- By NathalieNoura - 06 Dec 2021 | | | | |
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< | There is hope! | >
> | Take Matters into Your Own Hands | | | | |
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< | These "attractive" tools have taken on the form of a physiological nervous system capable of creeping into our mind and manipulating our behavior. This "being" is not a harmless object. It is a threat to freedom of choices and thought just like traditional surveillance is. However, there is still hope. Of course, I am not suggesting to abandon the net. Instead, it is about ensuring freedom of thought while using the net. Once can learn how the nervous system works and choose hardware and software that ensure freedom from surveillance and manipulation, such as managing one's own servers like FreedomBox instead of uploading to a cloud. Other practical approaches can be gluing a pair of eyes to the phone, decreasing the uploading of stories and posts, not swiping up for advertisements, turning off all notifications, not watching another episode, gradually decreasing our engagement by the phone, and ultimately leaving our phones at home for hours, or even days. The latter may may seem strange and unsettling at first, but it will also be liberating. | >
> | These "attractive" tools have taken on the form of a physiological nervous system capable of creeping into our mind and manipulating our behavior. This "being" is not a harmless object. It is a threat to freedom of choices and thought just like traditional surveillance is. However, unlike Winston in Orwell's 1984, we have not yet been reprogrammed by Big Shareholder. Of course, I am not suggesting to abandon the net altogether. Instead, it is about ensuring freedom of thought while using the net. One can learn how the nervous system works and choose hardware and software that ensure freedom from surveillance and manipulation, such as managing one's own servers like FreedomBox instead of uploading to a cloud. Other practical approaches can be gluing a pair of eyes to the phone, decreasing the uploading of stories and posts, not swiping up for advertisements, turning off all notifications, not watching another episode, gradually decreasing our engagement by the phone, and ultimately leaving our phones at home for hours or even days. The latter may seem strange and unsettling at first, but from experience it will also feel liberating. | | | | |
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Some links would be helpful, so that the reader can follow your thought process while also being one click away from the sources that have shaped your thinking. That's what the Web excels at helping us to as we write, so we should take advantage of it.
Quite a few political and social movements could describe the essence of their urgency as "We need to start by being aware of the reality of things." (Not all of these movements are equally attractive, of course, because it depends on the reality of the "reality.") "We must teach," like "we must learn," often results in almost no learning. So the last paragraph here is really the space to be filled by the second draft, I think.
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