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Telecommunications intrusive

I’ve always been upset with the way the telecommunications industry is backing us into a corner so that we can’t live with them and can’t live without them. Case in point is the spate of news reports about employers requiring access to social media accounts or email as a condition of employment. Guess I’d be unemployable, as I don’t have Facebook or Twitter, and I’m darned if someone will read my email unless I send it to them.

Does anyone see the irony that this is triggered by private capitalist industry? A reread of Orwell’s “1984” is in order. This isn’t about the government trying to control us. It’s about private capitalist industry using the government to monitor, control and snoop. The word for that is fascism, not socialism.

Barbara Morrissey

Spokane

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