control: the power to influence or direct people's behavior or course of events

"the internet, rather than enabling freedom, enabled total control."

"control-freedom, is a reaction to the increasing privatization of networks, public services and space, and to the corresponding encroachment of publicity and paranoia into everyday life."

both quotes from:

-from Control and Freedom: Power in the Age of Fiberoptics  Wendy Hi Kyong Chun

#8. control (by elliot)

    To exercise authoritative or dominating influence.

"The teaching of certain thoughts and ideas has often been regarded as a crime. And, since Roman times, certain kinds of what we might like to call ``Free Speech'' have been regarded as crime. But not only is speaking often prohibited, sometimes so is taking notes, or remembering what is spoken. As recently as the WTO meetings in Washington, police orders heard over the police radio requested the seizing or destruction of reporters' written notes, and many instances of attempted willful destruction of photograhic and video evidence have been perpetrated by both the police, the military, and by others.

But these same police and military forces have their own surveillance networks, police photographers, police videographers, and covert surveillance infrastructure. Such one sided (biased) ``evidence'' is perhaps worse than no ``evidence'' at all."

~Steve Mann

Week Twelve | November 20

Sousveillance, by Steve Mann