I doubt most Americans could evaluate corn flakes,
let alone Privacy vs Security.
Americans
Evaluate the Balance between Security and Civil Liberties
… In the latest Associated Press-NORC Center
for Public Affairs Research poll, 54 percent of Americans say it can
be necessary for the government to sacrifice freedoms to fight
terrorism; 45 percent disagree. About half of Americans think it is
acceptable to allow warrantless government analysis of internet
activities and communications—even of American citizens—in order
to keep an eye out for suspicious activity. About 3 in 10 are
against this type of government investigation.
Perspective.
Amazon
Invades India
… It is not hard to see why the battle for
India is this fierce, nor why Bezos, famously obsessed with
analytics, would see it as essential for Amazon’s future. The
numbers alone are dizzying. India’s population of 1.25 billion is
four times as big as the U.S.’s and more than double Europe’s.
And since the median age is 27—a full decade younger than
Americans’—the trajectory will be steep. India will overtake
China as the world’s most populous country in just seven years,
according to the UN. It is now the world’s fastest-growing major
economy, and the IMF projects 7.5% growth next year. The roads and
railways might be creaking under the strain. Many laws governing
business are a confounding tangle, including a law forbidding foreign
companies from selling products directly to Indians. That law
effectively renders Amazon India a platform for vendors—akin to its
“fulfillment by Amazon” program in the U.S.—rather than the
company so familiar to Americans, which buys wholesale items in bulk
and sells them directly in a Brobdingnagian online store.
… Barely one-quarter of India’s population
has access to the Internet at home, whether on a smartphone or
computer, and only a small fraction of those have ever shopped
online.
We get the leaders we deserve. Scary, isn't it.
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(Related) It was different back in ye olde days.
FDR
Presidential Library – New Digital Speech Collections
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jan 2, 2016
Mary
E. Stuckey – “The FDR Library, with support from AT&T,
Marist College and the Roosevelt Institute launches online one of its
most in-demand archival collections – FDR’s
Master Speech File – over 46,000 pages of drafts, reading
copies, and transcripts created throughout FDR’s political career.
Presented alongside the Speech File is the Library’s complete
digital collection of Recorded Speeches of FDR.”
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