This TED talk is about how the internet enables intimacy — but in the last few minutes Stefana Broadbent veers into a keen analysis of the state, and the corporate and government desire to say who has the right to “self-determine” where our attention is focused.  She points out that security and safety have always been justification for more social control — and if real security and safety concerns can do it — how much more might state-engineered security and safety concerns be able to accomplish?  As noted in the blog today, the government needs a newer and “improved” Patriot … Continue reading ;Who has the right…’