{"id":3941,"date":"2011-01-25T03:59:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T10:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2011-01-25T03:59:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T10:59:12","slug":"privacy-and-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/25\/privacy-and-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy and resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

MS Jordan posted in the comments section yesterday about Phil Mocek, the Seattle man just acquitted of four counts stemming from his polite refusal to show ID at the Albuqueuque, NM, airport. There’ve been a quite a few blips of info on Mocek, but this news story<\/a>, with its video and links to earlier stories about Mocek, gives the best look I’ve found so far.<\/p>\n

Took the jury all of an hour. No surprise. As usual the police\/TSA account of Mocek “shouting” and creating a disturbance turns out to be a pack of lies. And as usual, the “authorities” didn’t know the law, either. They were just enforcing their thuggery.<\/p>\n

The video Mocek took during the encounter is really something. It shows a perfect performance by a man who knows and asserts his rights. Mocek’s experienced at this — and other forms of activism, as well. <\/p>\n

And probably he’s used to being dragged off to jail by thuggish boobs for contempt of cop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Me, I’d rather stay home. Lorri, the friend I traveled to Panama with last year, is agitating for a trip to Australia. I’ve always wanted to go to New Zealand. A natural twofer. Neither of us can afford it now so it’s a moot point, but even if we were rich, it would be too much of a Hobson’s choice<\/a>. No, more properly a Morton’s fork<\/a>. “Would you prefer the pube-groping or the nude-o-scanning today, ladies?”<\/p>\n

Either way, I find myself feeling sad at a moment I’d like to be rejoicing for Mocek’s victory.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

In the nice, easy, doable<\/i> privacy realm, Brad at WendyMcElroy.com<\/a> reports there’s a new privacy-protecting search option. You know about StartPage<\/a>, the European-based privacy-respecting alternative<\/a> to Google. Well, now there’s a newcomer with the charmingly odd name DuckDuckGo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m with Brad, I love<\/i> DuckDuckGo’s sister site, DontTrack.Us<\/a>. It not only has a simple, pictorial description of what Google and third-party advertisers do with your information, but once you’ve scrolled down to the very bottom they show their seriousness about privacy by listing and linking to a passel of privacy-enhancing browser add-ons.<\/p>\n

Good on them. I still admire StartPage, which is represented in the U.S. by the amazing, awesome, fabulous, wonderful Katherine Albrecht<\/a>. But the appearance of a privacy-loving competitor says maybe there’s a market for the good guys, eh? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MS Jordan posted in the comments section yesterday about Phil Mocek, the Seattle man just acquitted of four counts stemming from his polite refusal to show ID at the Albuqueuque, NM, airport. There’ve been a quite a few blips of info on Mocek, but this news story, with its video and links to earlier stories about Mocek, gives the best look I’ve found so far. Took the jury all of an hour. No surprise. As usual the police\/TSA account of Mocek “shouting” and creating a disturbance turns out to be a pack of lies. And as usual, the “authorities” didn’t…<\/p>\n

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