Re: [sudo-discuss] reminder: this email list is Google-able

Rabbit & Yo's- Here's another vote for "yes we should have a list that's not indexed by Google." Given the choice between posting to a list that's a direct surveillance-feed and one that isn't, many of us will take our discussion to the latter. (Would you rather cuddle with your friends under a surveillance camera, or under a tree?) But let's not call it "ephemeral," because that word, in this context, is a white flag of surrender. It's surrender to the idea that Google is the one and only keeper of cultural memory, and anything else is merely transient. It's surrender to corporate power and the control state. We should assert the right to our own collective memory, stored on our own devices, accessible to our own community. The place for the kind of broadcast that becomes an appetizer on Big Brother's cannibal menu, is when the broadcast is something that'll give Big Brother indigestion. Let Google eat our manifestos, proclamations, and press releases. But not our soul-searches, our occasional bickering, our existential angst, or our vulnerable self-revealing philosophizing about sex, religion, and the meaning of life. -G. ===== On 13-05-05-Sun 5:16 PM, Rabbit wrote: