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RE: Your Help Is Needed!

Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-10-14 01:07

Amen to the comment about the value of having all these resources available on one site! It means so much to have the resources in dynamic form, too, where we've got two-way communication and can ask questions about anything we don't understand after reading about it. We've got the value of textbook, current magazine subscription and seminar combined here.

Another value: respect for personal privacy, which will disappear completely if consumers don't rebel against computerized Big Brother watching our shopping habits, medical records and all manner of other personal information. Respect for privacy is in very short supply on the commercial and so-called "free" sites that exist to suck in information about visitors and spew out "targetted" advertising with "dynamic pricing" (figuring out what the target will bear and charging higher prices to devoted regular customers).

Take a good, close look at the so-called "privacy policies" on the "free" and commercial sites. Those "privacy policies" are for the most part a bad joke, so full of weasel words that either they're meaningless, or they actually beguile consumers into *signing away* privacy rights. The flip side of trading privacy for a bargain is that people with self-respect have to *pay* to keep our privacy by giving up the lower prices given to people willing to live under a camera.

When I checked out the details of my local supermarket's new "bonus card" (aka a *spy card*) last month, I was so disgusted, in fact enraged, that I switched nearly all of my grocery shopping to a rival store that's much farther away from my home but is one of the few left that doesn't tie its best prices to a spy card. I don't want the multi-national corporation that owns the grocery to monitor what my family eats and what over-the-counter medications we use. Every time I shop at the rival chain, I think about my neighborhood store and say to myself, "Target *this*, you @#$%^&*s!"

One way to protect not just ourselves but society against these privacy invading, predatory practices is to support sites like www.sneezy.org that make advertising *available* in a straightforward way, without all this sneaky crap. Put the hurt on the privacy-invaders. Don't do business with them. If they start losing customers, bigtime, then they'll be forced to show some respect. Meanwhile, coming here is a pleasure.

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