Everyone who is after my money.
That
means everyone.
We
are in a feeding frenzy of unbridled lust at the moment over who gets
my money. This is because the internet represents the biggest gold
rush in recorded history - and everyone is invited. I don't have to
pack up my mule and traipse around the world to be a part of it. As
long as I have a computer and an internet, I'm right in the thick of
it. And people are after my money by fair means and foul. The
tricksters and thieves are trying to con me out of it and businesses
are legitimately trying to datamine my activities in order to better
"serve" me which amounts to exactly the same thing
People
talk about the Dark Web. What they don't realise is that most of it
is dark. It is being used to misinform and mislead people and so
steer them to certain economic decisions and activity.
There
is nothing new in this. All other forms of media have gone this very
same way. Only they took a little longer and they no longer pretend
to be unbiased.
You
can see this by the level of news reporting in the media. There is no
news anymore. It gives a completely distorted view of what is
happening in the world. According to news media, what Kate Middleton
is wearing today is more important than the fact that tens of
thousands of children will die today as they did yesterday and as
they will tomorrow.
So
it is that sites once set up to help the public are now hindering it.
Take TripAdvisor. It allowed people to give honest, unpaid reviews.
Sounds great. However, first it was co-opted by businesses giving
false positive reviews to artificially drive up their ratings and
then by their competitors giving false bad reviews to drive down
those same ratings. So their information is utterly flawed but
TripAdvisor don't care because all it wants is the traffic.
Take
Facebook. I would say that 50% of the posts on my wall are either
people sharing company information in the hope of winning a prize or
companies sharing information hoping to go viral. It takes real
effort to see what my friends are actually doing.
Now
I've only used TripAdvisor and Facebook as examples. They are not the
worst and they are certainly not alone.
So,
my computer is loaded with cookies, Trojans, covert software and the
like with companies spying on me to learn my potential buying habits.
It's
like walking out onto any street in the Third World and being
accosted by hordes of children trying to beg from you, traders trying
to sell to you and thieves trying to pick my pocket
If
something isn't done soon, the internet will become strangled under
this overgrowth and people will just stop using it.
So
anyone who can offer secure and private use of the internet without
this aggravation is going to become seriously rich
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