I grew up during the Antiwar Vietnam Era & Nixon administration

[Mr. Ed]

Naturally I grew up distrusting the government and of course people over 30. I tried to enlist in the Coast Guard, however, for reasons I cannot recall I was not selected. I question patriotism, if sacrifice is a necessity. If freedom unites us then how much freedom must I give up to be free?

With every computer entry, my search query leaves a trail that is sold to marketers selling goods from the information I left behind. My privacy is not my own, but it could be if I took time and effort to remove myself from all tracking. I could be free if I wanted to be free, but freedom takes effort and knowhow I'm not sure I am up for the sacrifice.

 

[jerry old]

I have a response, but it is to long to write.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I’m not sure that I understand your point.

IMO we fight and make sacrifices to protect our way of life, our families, and hopefully the common good.

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose ...” - Kris Kristofferson

 

[Mr. Ed]

Freedom is it is not free without cost or sacrifice, nothing is free. What is freedom? hypothetically, freedom is a concept of no restraint. Freedom may be achieved without limitations, as one force. To be the one as one.

 

[Tom 86]

Freedom is it is not free without cost or sacrifice, nothing is free. What is freedom? hypothetically, freedom is a concept of no restraint. Freedom may be achieved without limitations, as one force. To be the one as one.

Very true more & more every day. You go into the big cities & there are cameras there monitoring every move you do. Same going to sporting events, cameras everywhere. Same in stores. So you are being watched almost every minute of the day anymore. Also, you have to go through metal detectors at many places & at airports almost stripped searched.

As for ads on the computer, I got a good "Add blocker" program & I never get anything that I don't want to see.

 

[David777]

Well the general question much depends on where one lives and circumstances. A person living in some remote rural area versus another living in a dense urban city will view the issue of freedoms differently. That noted, we can all answer the question from our personal perspectives.

I live in a very urbanized district of a vast modern urban region, the SFBA, and have been up to my neck in hi tech especially computers for decades. My world is a dangerous place, very different from the California I grew up in where people could generally trust neighbors. Today many neighbors are generally afraid of each other for good reason. Few people choose to look others in the eye while passing on sidewalks much less smile or say hi. On my local Nextdoor forum there is much postings of property crimes being committed that authorities seem afraid to address in effective past ways for political correctness reasons. Significant numbers of evil doers and desperate poor at every level of society with low ethical and moral behaviors.

The rise of the Internet has given rise to a world wide plague of those intent on stealing the wealth of others and manipulating media. Our world is significantly overpopulated with media and politics controlled by wealthy and wealth seekers. All these factors and many more bear on our freedoms because of threats. Doing nothing, restricting nothing is a recipe for chaos.

I am not one of those looking for hours at a smartphone screen and rarely activate Internet roaming nor GPS tracking. In fact often don't carry my Android smartphone around. I have not loaded many popular apps. No social media apps that have risen since smartphones appeared. No digital banking apps on my computers or smartphones though do use amazon, paypal, and id.me. I've chosen to do these things because I who has spent a career in computers do not trust computer software nor the corporations that control such that tend to sacrifice personal security at the threshold such affects profits.

 

[Lawrence]

A thing I do to help git rid of the tracking is to go into the computer settings. Then go into the privacy options. Then go to the general option. Then you will be in the change privacy options and I turn off all of options and it helps to not be tracked.

 

[Irwin]

Well the general question much depends on where one lives and circumstances. A person living in some remote rural area versus another living in a dense urban city will view the issue of freedoms differently. That noted, we can all answer the question from our personal perspectives.

I live in a very urbanized district of a vast modern urban region, the SFBA, and have been up to my neck in hi tech especially computers for decades. My world is a dangerous place, very different from the California I grew up in where people could generally trust neighbors. Today many neighbors are generally afraid of each other for good reason. Few people choose to look others in the eye while passing on sidewalks much less smile or say hi. On my local Nextdoor forum there is much postings of property crimes being committed that authorities seem afraid to address in effective past ways for political correctness reasons. Significant numbers of evil doers and desperate poor at every level of society with low ethical and moral behaviors.

The rise of the Internet has given rise to a world wide plague of those intent on stealing the wealth of others and manipulating media. Our world is significantly overpopulated with media and politics controlled by wealthy and wealth seekers. All these factors and many more bear on our freedoms because of threats. Doing nothing, restricting nothing is a recipe for chaos.

I am not one of those looking for hours at a smartphone screen and rarely activate Internet roaming nor GPS tracking. In fact often don't carry my Android smartphone around. I have not loaded many popular apps. No social media apps that have risen since smartphones appeared. No digital banking apps on my computers or smartphones though do use amazon, paypal, and id.me. I've chosen to do these things because I who has spent a career in computers do not trust computer software nor the corporations that control such that tend to sacrifice personal security at the threshold such affects profits.

Are you talking about the problems with homelessness in the SFBA? I've watched a few videos about that on YouTube and it's a bad situation. Most major cities in America have downtowns overrun with the homeless who crap on the sidewalks and urinate in public, not to mention all the panhandling and all around unpleasantness of their presence. It may be the canary in the coalmine, or one of them, portending the imminent collapse of society if we don't make some major changes to our economic structure and huge disparities between the rich and the poor.

 

[Nathan]

.... huge disparities between the rich and the poor.

This is the crux of the matter,and the political battle between the party that supports the concept of wage parity, inclusiveness, and the protection of all under the Constitution, and the party that fights for the wealthy and corporate interests.