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YAHOO SAID NO: CHEERS FOR YAHOO'S LONE PROTEST AGAINST GOVERNMENT SNOOPING IN THE ONGOING PRISM SCANDAL

Virginia Heffernan [8.2.13]

The disclosures of former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who this week was granted temporary refugee status in Russia, suggest that the government has spent years tapping the very thoughts of Internet users, as George Dyson puts it in a recent essay on Edge.org.

It’s hard to believe that any citizen, apprised of his rights, would consent to having his mind regularly read by the government. So why did the Internet companies, through which we now externalize mental processes in the form of Web searches, e-commerce, and verbal and visual communication, so quickly sell us out? Why didn’t any one of the communication giants refuse, citing...well, citing anything, from the Bill of Rights to the Magna Carta to the law of the land to common sense?
 
Well, it seems one company did. ...
 

YAHOO SAID NO: CHEERS FOR YAHOO'S LONE PROTEST AGAINST GOVERNMENT SNOOPING IN THE ONGOING PRISM SCANDAL [1]

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Virginia Heffernan [2]
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[ Fri. Aug. 2. 2013 ]

The disclosures of former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who this week was granted temporary refugee status in Russia, suggest that the government has spent years tapping the very thoughts of Internet users, as George Dyson puts it in a recent essay on Edge.org [4].

It’s hard to believe that any citizen, apprised of his rights, would consent to having his mind regularly read by the government. So why did the Internet companies, through which we now externalize mental processes in the form of Web searches, e-commerce, and verbal and visual communication, so quickly sell us out? Why didn’t any one of the communication giants refuse, citing...well, citing anything, from the Bill of Rights to the Magna Carta to the law of the land to common sense?
 
Well, it seems one company did. ...
 

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[1] https://www.edge.org/news/yahoo-said-no-cheers-for-yahoos-lone-protest-against-government-snooping-in-the-ongoing-prism
[2] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/virginia_heffernan
[3] http://yhoo.it/19CTMg5
[4] http://www.edge.org/conversation/nsa-the-decision-problem