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Judging by the reaction to the deletion of GGs stories, a significant minority or even a majority want the latter.
So the real question is does the public get what the public wants?
"GHCQ has pics of your teenage daughter ..."
Aside from the fact that we haven't figured out the SEO yet ( see https://sourcegraph.com/blog/switching-from-angularjs-to-ser... ), encouraging the unwashed masses to "appify" their content is tantamount to malpractice IMO.
> If you’re looking for a place to stay in Marfa this evening, there are a total of five options available. In the six year history of Airbnb, only 17 properties have ever been booked in Marfa. So it’s difficult to argue that Airbnb is having any impact on the housing market in this community.
Kinda funny reading that then the original article on slate attempting to make something out of this non-story
For example instead of everyone having a unique email address, why not have shared email accounts with many hundreds of thousands of people, but where messages meant for you are encrypted with your public key. Your email client will attempt to decrypt all messages the account receives but will only succeed with yours.
Or for making a blog post, rather than publishing on one single server / blog domain, why not post to hundreds or thousands of different blogs at once, using all kinds of different IP addresses. Perhaps even have other people that blindly post for you (mechanical turk/crowd sourcing)
Perhaps the meta level idea here is if we want to restore privacy, we need to sacrifice our individual identity (my email address, my blog, my phone) and lose ourselves in the crowd