About auto-censorship
This has to be one of the finest anecdotes I have heard in a long time. Perhaps everybody knows it, but nonetheless it’s excellent.
In a conversation about Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) for Enterprise Collaboration, Gil Yehuda answered a comment I made about the chilling auto-censorship effect that AUPs can have on collaboration. In his response he says:
As a security professional once told me “Anything you say can be used against you, so why speak when you can nod?”
Couldn’t help but think about my posting yesterday in this same blog: this is another example of the limitations of 2.0-anything. We are all nice people, we all like each other, and we have really good intentions. But Big Brother doesn’t sleep. Or, in other words (Porter’s, in Technopoly), the transformational powers of technology can be grossly over-estimated, specially when that technology is brought about by those that would be most impacted by it.
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on July 10, 2009 at 5:33 am LDN wrote:
interassante commento , caro amico