Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

[Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>]

On 12 August 2005 16:16, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Neil Bothwick schreef:
> > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:17:40 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> >>Big Brother may be watching you, but you watch Big Brother-- that show
> >>with the incredibly ironic name-- don't you?
> >
> > No way!
> >
> >>So who are 'you' (generic)
> >>to talk about 'privacy'? Much less as a inalienable right, when it's
> >>clear that this right can be happily bought and sold?
> >
> > The contestants are not really selling their privacy, just performing for
> > pay. but even if they were, it is theirs' to give or sell, not ours to
> > take.
>
> I thought that the whole point of an inalienable right was that it could
> not be bought or sold (or given or taken, for that matter).

Privacy isn't an unalienable right. You can install webcams all over your 
house or flat and let people pay to watch you. Actually, there is such a web 
site. ;-)

Uwe

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