I still remember the warm summer nights when I and my neighborhood buds would play Hide and Seek. One of us would be “IT” and be charged with finding the others who would hide. If I was IT and got too far from “home base,” one of those hiding could race by me, touch home base and be “Home free.” With one less person to find, there was still time to find someone else to be IT. Today the name of our IT is US government except it isn’t playing a game and won’t quit.
When the internet was first introduced it was the neatest thing around, allowing email communication with people around the world. Who doesn’t want a wealth of information at your fingertips? To see this, we had to use a “browser,” the door to our new playground that anyone can walk through. Later social media would add pictures, video, and personal information of us and our friends to our record. Our new playground seemed safe so WE LET DOWN OUR GUARD. We never thought Big Tech would be an enemy to accumulate our information, block real news, promote propaganda, and censure our free-speech. Now we know, but why are we still playing the game using the enemy’s browser, apps, and video production tools? All I can think is we are a bunch of educated and lazy frogs sharing a boiling water hot tub together.