Blue, am disappointed to hear how SI went another step in the wrong direction again. So they exchanged a picture of a duck on you arbitrarily instead of keeping a beautiful nebula link you chose for your profile on there this time. Maybe someone working for SI personally that choice for you, maybe pictures need to be limited to conform to demands of software on the new SI, maybe the software threw it out as overload, who knows why or who did it. That your choice was altered is the fact and it's Not Good.
As an adult, shareowner, an American, and a site contributor thinking this is objectionable, too. Just because it's happening to others as well doesn't make it right, and hope to see SI corrects it soon. If it's still ok on the old SI and changed on the new, thinking it's probably no nefarious BigBrother purpose afoot but the capacities of the software, Check One. So then there's the question of Off The Hot List and your link choice of techride.com being moved down, as well. Thinking Go2net should have better utilizations for their paid employees than to assign them to tasks like this - best to get them working on expanding software capacity and beefing up the site beneath the sugarcoating instead.
Teens of today will be the Future Everyday Users Of The Internet. They're even called The Internet Generation here and there to distinguish them from the Generation Xers. It greatly concerns me seeing them Programmed In-Training ..growing up too accepting of what they say online being put under the microscope of a censor. They shrug their shoulders about that that their writings could possibly be erased or even be the cause of the membership to the site or even to the ISP subscription which their parents need to do business, to be revoked. So they're careful what they say online. The teens know and shrug off that it's not the government spying and making choices for them about what they say, it's Corporations. They accept the fact of Site Owners choosing what goes on there because they own the site and the posters don't.
It's All Skewed.
On the one hand I commend any automatic respect for Property Rights Of Others as a large part of the formula of the glue that keeps our civilization together... and applaud to see teenagers accepting it's necessary to accept authority & things given with strings attached(you know, hire a teenager while they still know everything LOL) while on the other hand am very worried about the trending forward as I know you are too.
Today's Generation won't be too inclined to resist or question Censorship Online, if they become so accustomed to it now.
GNET This Is A Wake-Up Call. Internet Leaders don't follow along with The Sheep....Show Us Your Stuff before someone else takes up the banner! Either BE The Leader or say baa-baaaaaaah & goo-goo along with aol & the rest of 'em who censor so the site contributors who draw the hits are ultimately alienated and displaced to go elsewhere. Getting sick of that, they'll buy their own web address and say what they want to say on there. Seeing this happen more and more would be the only natural result from the hassling and censorship being the cause. Would Portals rather PAY PROFESSIONAL WRITERS & NEWSWIRES for conformist same/same stuff on their sites in the future?
Yep It Comes Down To That, Can't Have It Both Ways.
909s2U from UR long tine friend,
Joan |
