OPEN THING

Edward Snowden


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Nothing is immune against abuse.


Glasnost has become dangerous and will diffuse more and more. This cannot be prevented, we only can mitigate the deleterious effects.


No law on privacy can protect us against the determination of experts of snoopery and information tecnology, if we havn't very strong tribuni plebis.


Remember always that the tribunus plebis was a venerable ancient figure which Cicero considered to be around 400 years old.


German scholars of the 19. century - especially of the Bismarck time - have transformed the Ilias into an unwordly fairy tale, Caesar and Augustus into the savers of the republic, Spartacus into a criminal rioter to spit on and the dignified institution of the tribunus plebis into a dubious semicriminal union leader.


But what the future needs is exactly this: 1. strong user unions which are able to controll information tecnocrats and 2. an open source based organism which controlls the unions.


RES PUBLICA = OPEN THING


And if you love germanic history of the origins, reflect on the fact that "thing" once was the name of a meeting place where discussions and judgements took place. Completely different, but nevertheless the northern variant of what in Greece was called agora.