TheSilverWatch Google, YouTube, Government Invasion of Privacy

[TheSilverWatch]

Adolf Hitler would have been PROUD of Vic Toews effects to HARASS and Criminalize Canadians Citizens this week.

[qualqui]

Oh for shame of Google,....they don't know it but they've just signed YouTube's death warrant, cause if others follow your in your footsteps,....YT will no longer be,...then again there's always the private websites we can click on, for example that AWESOME CanadianSilverBuillion site of a buddy of ours, thumbs up TheSilverWatch!! =)

[thetimman00]

How do we know this isn't just a new path of least resistance with psychopaths leading? There may be a "special" camp just for the zippers with special zipper buses to take you there. Zippers unite with the un-zippers, and all will be fine.

[nanabijou62]

See you at zipp!

[drutter]

Privacy is a massive issue. Many have no idea they've nearly lost it all, or why they should care - very scary!

When told by "the authorities" that you must allow them into your personal life, into your home, into your mind, into your vehicle, into your pockets, into your bags, into your sex life, or into your online activities, because if you have nothing to hide it shouldn't be a problem, your response is:

"I have MY PRIVACY to hide. I consent to NO searches, and to NO invasion of my privacy."

[TheSilverWatch]

@drutter Thank-you drutter for posting your thoughts on this. :)

[SilverLadyBug999]

@drutter What a brilliant comment :)

[rightsideofhistory]

@drutter As usual devil's advocate: then we must all stay off the commercial entity called the internet. As much as we think it's subject to privacy, it's really not. We're using for-profit ISP's, sites, and services. Including Google YouTube. We pay for our ISP, but not a cent to surf these billion dollar sites. So it's their rules, not the constitution. No more than entering porn channels in a hotel room - the provider knows exactly what you looked at. Disconnect from the grid, I keep sayin'

[drutter]

@rightsideofhistory

Hehe how is that "devil's advocate", I wonder? I agree with everything you just said. We're putting our privacy at risk if we enter into contracts with Google and friends, which is what we're doing by agreeing to their terms of use. I guess my point is that privacy is more important than most people seem to think, and that we should defend it as such, and that by dealing with Google we're willingly putting it at risk, as you said. They make the rules here!

[rightsideofhistory]

@drutter I don't have much faith in the internet being private, nor has it probably been for 10-15 years now. Surfing, cookies, tracking, has been going on for a very long time. We're simply riding a big marketing machine to pay for the leisure and services we have embedded into our lives (I'm 100% guilty myself). As much as the politicians seem to (publicly anyway) applaud the internet allowing the people to band up & rise up around the globe, it may just bite them in the ass here at home!

[ambientpeace4]

@rightsideofhistory I've never thought of the internet as private. I'm always aware that whatever I put out there in digital form is potentially there forever.

[TheSilverWatch]

@ambientpeace4 Indeed....the images of the Death of Robert Dziekański at YVR will live in my mind eternally. The images of a man in distress having the LIFE pulled from his body never leave my thoughts. Indeed the words I write here will stay here Forever.

RIP Robert.

[ytgv3fc7]

@rightsideofhistory not all of the internet is commercial. It's a combination of existing networks and protocols you can use on any hardware. So you just take all the benefits & blacklist the parts of the network which don't suit you. This includes setting up your own subnet

[ytgv3fc7]

@drutter even more, I'll demand to know the precise things about them that they ask about me. That'll force them to explain how they feel any need to keep secrets from ME when I ask. There are no real "authorities". I am my own authority. Period.

[drutter]

TAPS.... this reminds me of my Scouting days.

[TheSilverWatch]

@drutter Jandy thought the music was kinda cute and cheaky with the little red RCMP guy on the sceen lol

[ambientpeace4]

@TheSilverWatch I agree with Jandy! haha

[nsakic]

It is already too late, so, you might as well continue posting videos. The government already knows everything ... if your right ass cheek is itching, the government knows!

[TheSilverWatch]

@nsakic Thanks but I am making a choice to no longer contribute to YouTube's advertising revenue.

[Gyva02]

Good for you, I see many making new accounts and uploading from library's and other public places in order to keep identity a little more secure...

[drutter]

@Gyva02

Except that you need to give your phone number to make a new account these days... and yes they actually verify that it's your real phone number. :(

[Gyva02]

@drutter $10.00 trac phone, then throw it away ????

[ytgv3fc7]

@drutter I skipped it. Made several gmail accounts and from them expanded them into youtube accounts. That's right, that skips the phone number check.

[drutter]

@ytgv3fc7

If I need to, I'll try that sometime - thanks :)

I favourited that Canadian privacy video you linked me to in my "7 year old" video.

[goldcurrent1]

I deleted my G+ account yesterday and it felt great!

[cutlerylover]

Dont be fooled this isnt new google has already followed your every move since the beginning they are juust being nice and making it public now, lol...there is no such thing as privacy in 2012, period, no matter where you go

[TheSilverWatch]

@cutlerylover That may be true, however, i am making this choice to move away from YouTube. I wont be posting any more videos here to contribute to their advertising revenue.

[cutlerylover]

@TheSilverWatch I respect your decision youll be missed...

[thaboomer53]

@cutlerylover you got that right. There is no privacy anytime, anywhere, or anyplace. No one should think anything they use their computer for cannot be monitored by people who really want to know what your're doing. The only problem for the monitors, is when the person being monitored, knows more than the person doing the monitoring. A programing battle then take place, ala, anonymous.

[1imtrying]

@cutlerylover The diffrence is now its legal... 

[puapake]

Yeah GOOG sucks. They want you to leave a phone number just to log into Youtube, for "your security."

[TheHolySpirit]

I keep hearing about Zippcast. Will give it a look.

[1imtrying]

welcome to the club!