Very fluid, all this
anger about that Facebook breach of data from 50-million “unwitting” individuals
that thought there was a “Right to Privacy” under the U.S. Constitution. Don’t
take it from me, just listen to what Antonin Scalia “opined” in 2013: “THERE
IS NO RIGHT TO PRIVACY. NO GENERALIZED RIGHT TO PRIVACY.”
Scalia followed the lead of Justice Hugo Black, one of the few court jesters
that had repeatedly “dissented” away from the High Court’s unanimous opinion
this issue of “Privacy”. Black took issue, imposing a curfew on any such right under
the 4th Amendment which many thought held some semblance of “privacy”.
He sighted restrictions upon this right of protection for seizure of “tangible
things with size, form and weight”. That seems to be the case today, so case
closed Black was right and Scalia so correct to follow that lead. Which means a
phone call or data about your sexual preferences contains neither size, form or
weight - so it is free game for Facebook let the data hijacking begin. If you
placed confidence in any privacy protection, the saying stands “Don’t place all
your loot in the same bank” or all those eggs, broken…whatever. Why the
Facebook stock crashed when this “breach” was brought to the public’s attention,
it goes to show we think it came out as a fart when in reality…And according to a
snapshot by Adam Serwer in 2012 to sum it all up:
“Two hundred years ago the
Framers of the Constitution may not have been able to imagine a world in which
personal effects and correspondence, the very material the Fourth Amendment
is designed to protect from the government’s prying hands and eyes, would
someday exist in digital rather than physical form. But it would be surprising
if they thought that technological transition obliterated a basic
constitutional right. The logic of Black’s view, which Scalia appears to agree
with, is that if the 13 colonies had Facebook and GMail for King George III’s
agents to rifle through, the colonists would have had nothing to complain
about.”
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
So, with this breach the
$500-Billion “Social Media Giant” has realized a devaluation of $50-billion in
the last two days of trading - which equates to a $1000-buck fine for the
50-million individuals whose data was breached. Who pays that fine? The wealthy
because today 84% of the Wall Street Wolf’s “wealth” is owned by 10% of the
traders - that would be better off labeled as the “Traitors” because it was the
wealthy that has so far benefitted from how that “breached” data was used to
conceive a Fucking Moron and in this case, I think I would have preferred an
abortion!
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