CYBER DEMOCRACY: Some thoughts about digital freedom 

	How many layers of encryption are needed
	to protect you from the truth?

	The government knows every move
	you've been making.

	Every telephone call &
	keystroke is recorded,
	so what can anyone do?

	Big Brother is watching &
	freedom exists only
	within constraints.

	Citizen-serfs must do
	as overlords decree.

	Since those on top lust for control
	there’s little ordinary folks
	see or hear that hasn’t already
	been pre-packaged & pre-sold.


Gus:    I can't agree with this poem: the tone is too dark.

Bill:   Then you are a perfect citizen! Ideal citizens should believe they are free
        even when much evidence points to the contrary.

Gus:    I don't feel 'ideal'. I just don't believe governments are all-powerful.


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from _Cyberpoems: Exploring the Human-Machine Interface_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  An image of an all-seeing eye and some words about privacy.
KEYWORDS: digital privacy, pseudo-democracy, freedom within constraints, anti-poetry

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2015 in Tokyo, Japan / Finished: 2017 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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