“Docile consumers – that’s the way to go”. Some of you might recognize that quote from Ghost in the Shell, 2nd gig, last episode called “Endless gig”, towards the end of the episode, when the Imperial American agent kills Hideo Kuze. Taken out of context and viewed alone, this sentence doesn’t mean much. However if you look at the complete storyline of this season, it’s an interesting point of view compared to today’s politics.
While the title sounds like a computer game, a song by Sepultura or military plans, this is rather about ‘internet territory’, ‘cyber territory’. While every person can have some territory on the internet for themselves, be it a fancy personal website / blog (such as this one), twitter,facebook, etc. page, so do companies, organizations as well as governments. It is the latter who is more and more waging war on cyber territory. As usual with governments, the inherited bureaucracy and red tape all over prevents them usually from picking up new developments, especially in the technology area. So also with the internet. While government bodies, politicians and others affiliated with governments do have their web sites, info letters etc., they have failed so far to make a mark on the internet.
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