email failure

[Richard Vickery]

| From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
| To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
| Sent: Sunday, 19 January, 2014 01:13:38
| Subject: Re: email failure
| 
| Allegedly, on or about 18 January 2014, Richard Vickery sent:
| > I recently quit Gmail because I got sick of that they read your
| > email
| > AND they treat users as products rather than citizens,
| 
| Quoting an advertiser (one who makes them):
| 
| "If you're not paying for the service, then you are the product."
| 
| If you want a free service, there are sacrifices.  It mightn't be the
| service you really want, or you may have to do quite a bit of hunting
| to
| find one that suits you.

A citizen does not, nor ought need to, pay anyone for the rights of the office of citizenship. Slavery is an abolished practice, yet your advertiser has just stated in this quote that slavery is alive and well. Is it not time to rethink this? Treating society as products may be one of the reasons that the Taliban attacked US soil, and destroyed the trade towers in New York. We need to be treated as people, as citizens. If we are treating each other as slaves then the cycle of violence will never stop. 

At least I have a massive voice that is listened to at the university.

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