Boycott Clearwire

[Todd Boyle]

Orion wrote,
 > Do you honestly think for a moment that all of your communications
 > via any other Internet Service Provider can't be easily monitored,

Again, there is a *big* difference between today's companies,
some of them 100 years old, with their huge numbers of
stockholders, employees, etc. and Clearwire which is
founded, funded and conceived from day one by the
billionnaires or the Christian right.   The new company
will be populated with people who *own* their faction
of the government and *are* the ruling faction.  Will they
snoop your data? Will they censor or block?  Will they
extort fees?   Is the pope catholic?  Has a hog got a ass? ...

Todd

At 02:38 PM 12/24/2006, Orion wrote:
>On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:51:05 -0800, Todd Boyle wrote
> >
> > McCaw is so heavily tied to his Republican business network
> > that consumers' privacy and security on his Clearwire internet
> > service may be compromised.  They know every bit of your
> > communications, who you're connecting with, and exactly where
> > you're located, and it's all in easily analyzed data formats,
> > rather than voice or video.  That is a lot of power and the Republicans
> > have every intention to exploit that to the max.
> >
> > Todd
>
>It is rare that I get into these discussion, but I feel compelled to 
>speak up with a does of reality here.
>
>Do you honestly think for a moment that all of your communications 
>via any other Internet Service Provider can't be easily monitored, 
>concatenated, analyzed and presented in a nice easy to read format 
>to quite a number of government agencies?  If you think that, I got 
>a bridge in Brooklyn I can make you a great deal on.  Ultimately 
>they don't have to monitor the ISP itself, they just have to grab it 
>at the upstream carrier.  A recent scandal regarding AT&T and the 
>NSA that was brought to light earlier this year seems to come to mind.........
>
>Oh, and before I forget, your Internet Service has been subject to 
>CALEA for a few years too, btw, so true privacy on the Internet via 
>your ISP really is a moot point.
>
>Also, there is not a single sizeable communications carrier out 
>there (or sizeable company for that matter) that does not make 
>contributions to the political party flavor of the current 
>administration to better position themselves for legislation that 
>would beneift their company's bottom line.
>
>You want to make a difference and protect your privacy and security 
>on the Internet?  Look at things like TOR, FreeNet, their variants 
>and the many other projects out there that are starting to create 
>private encrypted overlay networks on the Internet.
>
>-Alex K.
>
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