War on personal responsibility rages...

Governments are again trying to draw up rules and boundaries on the internet — a nation-less domain they clearly have no right to touch. The free market rules on the internet and people are free to use it or not use it as they see fit. That is of course unless you live in a country that censors the internet like China...or Australia.

Click to view the story. From the Wall Street Journal
(Europe edition) on Aug. 26, 2010. Page 5.

Now Germany is considering making laws that would ban employers from looking at a (potential) employee's social networking pages (Facebook, StudiVZ.de etc). [Click on the article to expand and read].

This makes me laugh like all of the other privacy rubbish that people harp on about with Facebook and other sites.

People want their privacy and thats understandable, but we know that Facebook shares our information and our photos (which become public domain when you upload them) with everyone and anyone, particularly those people that make apps and so on.

There is the pseudo-private option of blocking off your profile from public view. You go into your privacy settings and change them all so no one can see anything.

Or if you don't want people looking at your life, the simple and effective way to protect your privacy is not to upload your information.

So back to the newspaper article in the Wall Street Journal, if you don't want your employer or a company you apply to work for to see things like you necking vodka out of a plastic penis on a hens night, then don't upload it! No one is twisting your arm.

Also if you don't want people to know you are affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, you don't need to upload it.

I know, I know it sounds insane not to exist. I mean some people could not imagine the crazy and unthinkable anonymity of not validating your existence on the internet. If its not on the internet, it doesn't exist. Oh wait is that the point?