Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

My father was born in 1919; he told me that when he was a small boy in the late 1920s/early 1930s, his parents rationed access to the family crystal set radio in case it “disrupted sleep” or he encountered “improper influences”, per newspaper fears

It’s funny how nothing changes, really — except now the goal is to get the newspaper’s competitors to enumerate, identify & “protect” all their “new” media consumers.

Because “safety” is a great cover story to obtain mass surveillance by via a morally irreproachable (?) back door.

⊞

Comments

One response to “My father was born in 1919; he told me that when he was a small boy in the late 1920s/early 1930s, his parents rationed access to the family crystal set radio in case it “disrupted sleep” or he encountered “improper influences”, per newspaper fears”

  1. alecm

    This:
    https://pessimistsarchive.org/list/jazz/clippings/1930/m-sc-757-247

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

More posts