David Emery OnlineLeave Britney Alone! (Where by Britney I mean Steve, Mark and Jimbo)
17 May 2010
The problem here is one of perspective. We hardcore internet users might do well to realise that, just because we spend our days trawling TechCrunch and TechMeme and Hacker News doesn’t mean that the wider world shares our belief that privacy settings for photos we’ve chosen to post online, Flash on the iPad or our God-given right to see erections on Wikipedia are the most important issues in the world today.
I’m beginning to link to every column Paul Carr writes for TechCrunch, because he’s the only one in the tech media that seems to have any sense of perspective.
Don’t agree with Apple’s App Store policies? Don’t buy an iPhone.
Don’t agree with Facebook’s privacy policies? Don’t use Facebook.
It’s not difficult.
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