On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 14:39 -0500, John Hasler wrote: . . . > I keep information secret when revealing it might harm me. I make no > deliberate effort to keep stuff secret just to prevent it from > benefiting someone else.
Of course, that requires the ability to discern when some information might be harmful. Take for example current controversies over services like Amazon and Google and the "filter bubble": Do you consider it harmful for them to tailor your experience to their estimate of what you want? Should the fact that I browsed over Marx' "Das Kapital" mean that subsequent searches for Economics and Social Philosophy will bury "Socialism" by von Mises so deep I won't see it? Some think it nifty while it scares the hell out of others. -- Bill Wood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1397766340.31148.11.camel@bills-debian
