I say NO to everything FB asks me in regard to making data public. Just last
night Google wanted permission to crawl up inside my computer and do stuff with
its software. For whatever it was worth, I didn’t allow it.
The internet is basically anarchy, and is likely to remain that way because
it’s too big and complex for any kind of regimentation or accountability. The
best I figure we can do is post nothing that we wouldn’t like to see on the
Times Square tickers, and watermark the crap out of photos we post anywhere
other than Zone-10, and maybe even there if word keeps getting around.
Which leads me to ponder—should we turn Zone-10.com/TOPE2 off for Google and
other search engine bots? Make that part of the site as invisible as possible
to the general public? Can you take part of a site dark? I know you don’t want
to take the whole thing off the grid. Of course I did make a sale based on a
customer finding a picture of mine on Zone-10, so . . .
Sigh.
I may be a cock-eyed pessimist, but I just don’t see how we peasants are going
to get anything in our favor where the internet is concerned.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Jan 24, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> One photographer with deep pockets and a junkyard dog of a lawyer will clean
>> this up eventually. Either that, or there won't be any more protection for
>> anything posted on the internet.
>
> Already gone for nearly all social media sites. The user agreement
> that FB has pretty well spells out that you are exchanging your first
> AND second born children for the right to get pounded with unending
> advertisements. If it is in electronic form, they own it.
>
> And it gets even worse. Have you all seen where FB is trying to mine
> your personal email accounts now?
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