Oh, the humanity
Feb. 19th, 2005 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerHaving just watched this 9 minute clip of The Daily Show, concerning bloggers bringing down hypocritical members of the US press, two things spring to mind:
1) Why the hell isn't there a political show as good as that over here in the UK?
2) We really are very nearly in The Transparent Society - we now have cameras pretty much everywhere, phone cameras/digital cameras everywhere else, and tiny, constantly recording cameras are just on the edge of possibility. It won't be long before you won't be able to say or do anything without it being possibly public knowledge. Fortunately, neither will 'they'.
1) Why the hell isn't there a political show as good as that over here in the UK?
2) We really are very nearly in The Transparent Society - we now have cameras pretty much everywhere, phone cameras/digital cameras everywhere else, and tiny, constantly recording cameras are just on the edge of possibility. It won't be long before you won't be able to say or do anything without it being possibly public knowledge. Fortunately, neither will 'they'.
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Date: 2005-02-20 09:26 am (UTC)Either you said something, or you didn't.
Either you stand by it, or you don't.
Either it's something you were right to say, you apologise, or you leave.
If someone said something at Davos they shouldn't have then they should either have apologised or quit.