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• 1 2017-10-30T18:13:48-07:00 #67, watch those who are monetizing their watching from the shadows 4 March 28, 2017 plain 2019-07-25T14:17:07-07:00 This #100hardtruth was shared with me by my friend, the feminist scholar, network weaver, and digitrix,  Jacqueline Wernimont:
  “My topic is ‘tracking and surveillance aka “who’s watching from the shadows and making a TON of money doing so…?” Which seems particularly relevant in context of the upcoming Net Privacy vote. I took a series of screen shots using Disconnect and Ghostery on Chrome (Ghostery blocks trackers, Disconnect blocks and also visualizes the set of companies watching). While drinking my morning coffee, I browsed as I might do on any normal day. A little news reading, social media, fact checking on Snopes, going to the bank, etc.
  
  I’m attaching the screen shots.
  
  See More:
  • “U.S. Senate Votes to Repeal Obama-Era Internet Privacy Rules,” Alina Selyukh
  • “How Online Tracking Companies Know Most of What You do Online (and what social networks are doing to help them),” Peter Eckersley
  • “Senate Votes to kill privacy rules meant to protect people’s senstive data from their internet providers,” Jim Puzzanghera
  • fightforthefuture.org
  • #100hardtruths-#fakenews

  To see a poetic response to this hardtruth:

  Information Costs Money
• 1 2019-07-25T14:13:29-07:00 Information Costs Money 2 Poets of Course gallery 2019-07-25T14:15:30-07:00

  Information causes pain and suffering
  Blood and Tears.
  I see more suffering in people's life
  and for myself
  it is a wound in my soul.
  Seeing everything
  Fake
  fake.
  No truth
  No honesty
  Sensations that problems happen.
  This country is using Facebook instead of news.
  There is a Buddhist monk
  says he hates Muslims.
  But you are a person of faith.
  Yours is a religion of love
  and patience
  it's understanding.
  and it sickens me.
  This is a person of peace and not violence.
  Why are you so angry?
  Angry? So angry?
  You get your information from Facebook and it is not true.
  He believes this news.
  Not getting the facts correct.
  People are not translating the news into the right language.
  Only two people translating in the country
  Guessing it wrong.
  You say something different language in different words.
  Facebook doesn't take responsibility for that.

  -José G.

  This poem is a response to hardtruth #67:

  #67, watch those who are monetizing their watching from the shadows