{"id":3970,"date":"2017-02-20T08:32:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:47:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:47:16","slug":"history-tells-us-things-will-get-worse-get-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/history-tells-us-things-will-get-worse-get-better\/","title":{"rendered":"History tells us the wars on privacy and sharing will get worse before it gets better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All governments of the world are cracking down on privacy and increasing mass surveillance, sometimes in the name of copyright enforcement, sometimes in the name of fighting terrorism, sometimes because they just want to. There\u2019s a pattern here of similar things in the past \u2013 something is horrible, horrible, horrible, until the point where fighting the phenomenon just looks silly, counterproductive, and inhumane. Cannabis is there today, and it\u2019s going to be years if not decades until it\u2019s just as silly to fight people sharing knowledge and culture with each other, trying to brand them as awful people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The striking pattern here is that people in power may regard an issue as completely peripheral, even downright uninteresting \u2013 like powerholders regard copyright \u2013 and still use the push from legacy industry interests as an excuse to get what they <em>really<\/em> want, like the copyright industry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/copyright-industry-works-methodically-erode-civil-liberties-human-rights\/\">demanding<\/a> mass surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon declared war on cannabis\u2026 what year was it again? Oh nevermind exactly what year, it was as far back as <em>when Nixon was president<\/em>, which says a whole lot more than an exact year (it was 1968). His campaign advisor has since <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/03\/23\/politics\/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie\/\">gone on record<\/a> saying they knew all along they lied about the dangers of drugs, but that declaring war on them helped them shatter the communities that threatened Nixon\u2019s re-election, specifically the hippies that opposed the Vietnam war.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDid we know we [the Nixon administration] were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/03\/23\/politics\/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie\/\">John Erlichman<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pattern seems to be that social breakthroughs, getting rid of the old taboos, happen in a few areas first that test the waters, and when nothing bad happens, the floodgates open. Bloomberg did a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/tosv2.html?vid=&amp;uuid=e49afa80-d038-11eb-aea6-b351b52c344c&amp;url=L2dyYXBoaWNzLzIwMTUtcGFjZS1vZi1zb2NpYWwtY2hhbmdlLw==\">good feature<\/a> of it from a US perspective, analyzing US breakthroughs like women\u2019s suffrage, marriage between people of different skin tones (which was once illegal!), and other similar issues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA few pioneer states get out front before the others, and then a key event\u2014often a court decision or a grassroots campaign reaching maturity\u2014triggers a rush of state activity that ultimately leads to a change in federal law.\u201d \u2014 Bloomberg<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When it comes to privacy in general, and sharing music, movies, culture, and knowledge between each other in particular, we can tell that we\u2019re <em>not<\/em> at the \u201cokay, this policy is just silly, everybody\u2019s doing it and nobody cares\u201d phase yet. <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/study-70-of-young-swedish-men-are-video-pirates-170217\/\">Everybody\u2019s<\/a> sharing and nobody cares, except the copyright industry, and the powers that be are using every excuse of that industry to crack down and toughen existing laws. Even though everybody who <em>knows<\/em> something understands that the laws are not just ineffective, but counterproductive and silly, there\u2019s no room for such thinking where the lobbyists of legacy industries roam unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>It took some 50 years to get to the \u201cokay, this persecution is just silly\u201d phase with cannabis. Let\u2019s not make it fifty years with sharing and digital civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All governments of the world are cracking down on privacy and increasing mass surveillance, sometimes in the name of copyright enforcement, sometimes in the name of fighting terrorism, sometimes because they just want to. 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