(from State of Emergency, Vogue Italia, via boingboing)
  • on Facebook, privacy, and exposure, danah boyd: "Privacy is not simply about the state of an inanimate object or set of bytes; it is about the sense of vulnerability that an individual experiences. When people feel exposed or invaded, there's a privacy issue. What happened with Facebook was not about a change in the bit state - it was about people feeling icky."
  • on the Seattle craigslist faux-submissive female ad scam and subsequent posting of all respondents names, emails, and often, cocks, violet blue: "How, exactly, is what Jason did any different than the duplicitous fake-ad and chatroom impersonation tactics police and government use to bust people for porn, sex work and online sexual solicitation? Or even something as benign as selling sex toys online?"


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