Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
azurelunatic) wrote2002-05-12 10:41 am
azurelunatic) wrote2002-05-12 10:41 am
Old (March 30, 2001) Letter to NetZero regarding Surf Safari
Okay, that was not good.
It severely worries me when something starts installing on my computer that I never gave permission to install on my computer. I just saw this little "Okay, you now have Surf Safari" message, and the little Surf Safari window thing. I know you guys are my ISP, but that still doesn't make me comfortable with your putting something on my computer that I didn't say yes to. I might decide on my own that I do want Surf Safari, but until I do check it out for myself and decide "hey, this would be nifty," I am not going to have it on my computer because I don't know what it is, what it does; I just know that someone put it on my machine without my permission. That is not cool. That is just not cool.
If you can download Surf Safari to my computer, you certainly could have popped up a little box ASKING me if I wanted Surf Safari, with a short bit about how completely nifty you think it is.
I am far, far less likely to ever install Surf Safari again because it was forced upon my computer.
The legal definition of "rape" is where sexual intercourse is given to someone who did not consent to it or was unable to give consent for it, whether by reason of intoxication or being underage. I know that a very small program downloaded onto my computer is not a violent assault, and I have in the past given permission for your company to put assorted programmage on my computer, but just because I consented all those times before does not necessarily mean that I would have consented to this. Perhaps it doesn't seem in any way analogous with rape in your mind, but it does in mine, and I'm not the only one who thinks this way about my computer.
Annoyed,
Azz
It severely worries me when something starts installing on my computer that I never gave permission to install on my computer. I just saw this little "Okay, you now have Surf Safari" message, and the little Surf Safari window thing. I know you guys are my ISP, but that still doesn't make me comfortable with your putting something on my computer that I didn't say yes to. I might decide on my own that I do want Surf Safari, but until I do check it out for myself and decide "hey, this would be nifty," I am not going to have it on my computer because I don't know what it is, what it does; I just know that someone put it on my machine without my permission. That is not cool. That is just not cool.
If you can download Surf Safari to my computer, you certainly could have popped up a little box ASKING me if I wanted Surf Safari, with a short bit about how completely nifty you think it is.
I am far, far less likely to ever install Surf Safari again because it was forced upon my computer.
The legal definition of "rape" is where sexual intercourse is given to someone who did not consent to it or was unable to give consent for it, whether by reason of intoxication or being underage. I know that a very small program downloaded onto my computer is not a violent assault, and I have in the past given permission for your company to put assorted programmage on my computer, but just because I consented all those times before does not necessarily mean that I would have consented to this. Perhaps it doesn't seem in any way analogous with rape in your mind, but it does in mine, and I'm not the only one who thinks this way about my computer.
Annoyed,
Azz