I have had comments disappear, too, but blaming a website is counterproductive.
Because of occasional computer glitches (power fluctuations, rogue processes etc.) and unstable internet access (DDoS etc.), I find it is better to write comments on my own computer (while pressing Ctl-S periodically to save) and pasting them into the Steemit comment box.
I like your idea of sharing the footage on a public database to have ourselves judge and protect us. On the other hand I can think of several reasons why not to. In places like Mexico where kidnap has become among organized crime, the access to this cameras would give them the intelligence needed behind a well planned kidnapping. People would want to hide their behavior and routine as much as possible to avoid being targeted for this horrible crimes.
Personally it is scary to have so many cameras watching with god-knows how many people behind them. I am starting to feel like I'm in "Big Brother".
This problem is multifaceted. One consideration is that with 2FA, footage of sensitive locales is not made publicly available, except as the owner of the footage provides a private key to particular individuals for particular footage. Another is that such thugs generally have other sources, such as NSA footage, of such data.
Lastly, this genie isn't gonna be stuffed back into the lamp. The surveillance is inevitable, and a result of cameras being more available and less expensive, and the network capabilities improving as well.
We can either use it, or lose it. Presently, we are losing it to thugs. An individual can just pretend it doesn't exist, and be surprised when it is used against them someday, use surveillance to secure their private property, which many do, or just hope the gummint plays nice, which it doesn't.
By working together, we can create an infrastructure which obviates government altogether, and creates an additional community resource enabling people to improve their circumstances, in the present, while preparing to absorb governmental operations at a future time when such operations have become intolerable and are no longer permitted to be used against private parties.
While I sympathize with your lamentation, how we feel about surveillance technology doesn't make it go away, nor set us free of it. Taking control of it as much as we can, however, can enable us to control how our privately held surveillance footage is used, and who sees it, while allowing control of footage to be monopolized by government leaves us at the mercy of government, which has none.
Imagine wearing smart glasses to controll a drone swarm....each of which has video camera and are the size of gnats...the swarm swirls around you as walk giving you an envelope of security coverage...that way you can see them coming before they get you..
I think there is a little too much risk in making it publicly available, I would rather make the purpose of counter espionage. Every Parlament has to provide the governed people with complete video footage and summary of what happened. I was so pissed when I realized G20 is a secret meeting after all, we only saw footage of the politicians on the red carpet...
Steemit isn't being very cooperative for me this morning. This is my third attempt at a reply to your comment.
As I indicated in reply to @capatazche there are ways to ensure that sensitive private footage isn't revealed unnecessarily.
Consider that if Mandalay Bay were part of such a network, the public would have access to proof of Paddocks guilt, or being setup as a patsy - at the sole option of Mandalay Bay, rather than potential bad actors that may have conducted the terrorist operation, the gummint.
When one private group of people has access to all the footage, that can be seen as fascism... but the opposite, to crowdsource the footage and give it to the public - is that the solution? Or perhaps it is mass paranoia?
I'd like to see a return towards more privacy if possible... but I am not sure that we can close the pandora's box, so maybe you are right :-)
Pandora's box is open, and only being cataclysmed back to the stone age will close it again, and that temporarily.
It's not paranoia when they are out to get us.
We are gaining the technology to render thugs obsolete. Use it or lose it.
I reckon getting on top of the bull and riding it into submission is better than letting enemies do so, particularly when they are demonstrably using the technology as a weapon against us.
My first thought was "Yeah really since those in power are the ones breaking all the laws they would be the ones caught on camera" If it was on tape and in the public domain it would be a lot harder to call it a "conspiracy theory".
by David Brin
One of my favorite short stories of all time is 'Lungfish' by Brin. Somehow I have missed this book, which I should definitely read.
Thanks!
I kinda liked Brin's Uplift series, in which he raised some interesting questions. Transparent Society caused quiet the uproar when it was released..
Brin fulfilled the purpose of speculative fiction in that series by raising such questions. He became one of my favorite authors.
sigh
I wrote a long detailed response to your comment..
Steemit dropped it..
I have had comments disappear, too, but blaming a website is counterproductive.
Because of occasional computer glitches (power fluctuations, rogue processes etc.) and unstable internet access (DDoS etc.), I find it is better to write comments on my own computer (while pressing Ctl-S periodically to save) and pasting them into the Steemit comment box.
not blame...just a statement of fact.
`love that old circuit board! Looks like its a ceramic board maybe?
you mean phenolic? That was in the 'pre plastic' era.
I like your idea of sharing the footage on a public database to have ourselves judge and protect us. On the other hand I can think of several reasons why not to. In places like Mexico where kidnap has become among organized crime, the access to this cameras would give them the intelligence needed behind a well planned kidnapping. People would want to hide their behavior and routine as much as possible to avoid being targeted for this horrible crimes.
Personally it is scary to have so many cameras watching with god-knows how many people behind them. I am starting to feel like I'm in "Big Brother".
This problem is multifaceted. One consideration is that with 2FA, footage of sensitive locales is not made publicly available, except as the owner of the footage provides a private key to particular individuals for particular footage. Another is that such thugs generally have other sources, such as NSA footage, of such data.
Lastly, this genie isn't gonna be stuffed back into the lamp. The surveillance is inevitable, and a result of cameras being more available and less expensive, and the network capabilities improving as well.
We can either use it, or lose it. Presently, we are losing it to thugs. An individual can just pretend it doesn't exist, and be surprised when it is used against them someday, use surveillance to secure their private property, which many do, or just hope the gummint plays nice, which it doesn't.
By working together, we can create an infrastructure which obviates government altogether, and creates an additional community resource enabling people to improve their circumstances, in the present, while preparing to absorb governmental operations at a future time when such operations have become intolerable and are no longer permitted to be used against private parties.
While I sympathize with your lamentation, how we feel about surveillance technology doesn't make it go away, nor set us free of it. Taking control of it as much as we can, however, can enable us to control how our privately held surveillance footage is used, and who sees it, while allowing control of footage to be monopolized by government leaves us at the mercy of government, which has none.
I guess generating a trusting community that shares private keys to access this footage would suffice. Good point.
Imagine wearing smart glasses to controll a drone swarm....each of which has video camera and are the size of gnats...the swarm swirls around you as walk giving you an envelope of security coverage...that way you can see them coming before they get you..
if you are unarmed you would STILL be helpless.
Battle is won before it is entered. Not entering physical conflict is preferable to surviving it, generally speaking.
As they say, forewarned is forearmed.
i pushed this up from 48 cents to 61 cents! i get sad when i see posts under $1 hah
Thanks for the upvote on my comment on the #damania http://dmania.lol post by @zombee which allowed that post to REALLy go up a lot!
I think there is a little too much risk in making it publicly available, I would rather make the purpose of counter espionage. Every Parlament has to provide the governed people with complete video footage and summary of what happened. I was so pissed when I realized G20 is a secret meeting after all, we only saw footage of the politicians on the red carpet...
Steemit isn't being very cooperative for me this morning. This is my third attempt at a reply to your comment.
As I indicated in reply to @capatazche there are ways to ensure that sensitive private footage isn't revealed unnecessarily.
Consider that if Mandalay Bay were part of such a network, the public would have access to proof of Paddocks guilt, or being setup as a patsy - at the sole option of Mandalay Bay, rather than potential bad actors that may have conducted the terrorist operation, the gummint.
When one private group of people has access to all the footage, that can be seen as fascism... but the opposite, to crowdsource the footage and give it to the public - is that the solution? Or perhaps it is mass paranoia?
I'd like to see a return towards more privacy if possible... but I am not sure that we can close the pandora's box, so maybe you are right :-)
Pandora's box is open, and only being cataclysmed back to the stone age will close it again, and that temporarily.
It's not paranoia when they are out to get us.
We are gaining the technology to render thugs obsolete. Use it or lose it.
I reckon getting on top of the bull and riding it into submission is better than letting enemies do so, particularly when they are demonstrably using the technology as a weapon against us.
My first thought was "Yeah really since those in power are the ones breaking all the laws they would be the ones caught on camera" If it was on tape and in the public domain it would be a lot harder to call it a "conspiracy theory".
You are exactly right!