I don’t mind sending a letter to the FCC, Congress, etc., but if I’m giving my real name and snail-mail address, I don’t want my phone # and/or my email address to be included. Yes I know all kinds of agencies, corporations, etc. are constantly copying my information from my computer (which I consider a fundamental invasion of privacy if without my permission) but voluntarily giving this information without judicious discrimination designed to optimize the protection of our civil liberties is violating the trust of every participating citizen to act responsibly to protect tour First Amendment (free speech, privacy, freedom of association, etc.) in every action we take. Without this constant vigilance in action we lead ourselves, our culture, into blindness creating sheep heading for the cliff like lemmings to the sea.
Well, that’s a hell of a paragraph, but I think you get the idea.
In everyday interaction between most people I know, everyone is very careful about who they give their email address to. Why then, would I casually over the internet send a letter to my government with my personal identifying information generally required to have impact give them my email address?
Perhaps something like Drop Box (not sure how that works) to properly petition my government by sending a missive over the internet but disconnecting my internet identity should be allowed.
Hmmm, now that I’ve written the above I am aware how this can be abused as our governments and corporations have grossly abused our privacy since the internet’s commercialization in the mid-1990’s when we gave up the internet’s nonprofit status–an action which I strongly resisted at the time, but could not overcome the (greedy) little entrepreneurs chomping at the bit to make a buck–just could not help ourselves.
So, identifying ourselves with our snail-mail address and name while petitioning our government over the internet while at the same time trying to protect our privacy while using the internet which is a land which uses our concept of privacy to take advantage of our privacy in order to make profit at the expense of privacy . IF we block our email address in that petition it would NOT BE CONSIDERED PROPER. What a joke.
If reading this comment has given you a headache or made you dizzy, that should be a clear indication we are in a deep swamp barely keeping our heads above water.
Well, I am not sure the approach here is of much help on this July 12, 2017 day of action to petition our government to protect net neutrality, but at last I have caused myself and hopefully others to confront the chaos confronting direct democracy in these times (the human race and life facing extinction, etc., little things like that)
“Houston, we have a problem.”
From a letter, Anonymous of course.
Nevertheless.blog 