ESQUIRE Nov 26, 2016 (Posted here 2:30 P.M., 27 November 2016).
You Can Now Delete Yourself From the Internet, and Here's How.
Mass email unsubscribe incoming.
What with all the intrusive web surveillance measures going through Parliament, it's enough to question whether the internet life is really worth it. Thankfully, if you want to tap out, there's now a solution.
Developers in Sweden have created a website that can help you delete your online presence with just a few simple steps. Yep, for real.
All you need to do is head to deseat.me, which is designed as a place for users to "clean up" their internet presence. The service essentially allows you to see all of the websites you're signed up to and then decide whether you'd like to delete or unsubscribe from them.
They do ask for your email address and password so it can scan for the sites you're signed up to, something which is probably setting off your mental internet security alert straight away.
Creators Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck, though, indicate that they take users' privacy seriously and the info isn't stored on their servers. Um, okay, guys.
The path to online freedom isn't as simple as handing over your details, mind. The platform is currently limited to Gmail, meaning those pesky @hotmail and @msn accounts will still be subject to endless amounts of spam.
It also doesn't provide a consistent sweep across the internet, despite being able to rid you of popular sign-ups like Facebook and Twitter
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Still, if you're looking to at least reduce your online presence, look no further.
And as bad as we have it here, we are not alone:
World
Pacquiao says Philippine drug problem 'beyond imagination'
AFP Fri, Nov 25 11:18 PM PST (Posted here 2:40 P.M., 11/27/2016)
Tokyo (AFP) - The Philippines' drug problem is "beyond imagination", boxing legend Manny Pacquiao said on Saturday in Tokyo, defending his hard-liner president's controversial anti-drug campaign.
Pacquiao, a national hero and elected senator, is a high-profile supporter of President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on crime that has left more than 3,700 people dead in four months. (Current population is 100.7 million). See, as bad as we have it, other places are far worse). We have had per the CDC 15,809 Homicides this YEAR from all causes. 10,945 from Firearms. And we have a population of about 320,000,000. The Philippines are going to surpass us in most likelihood? Those 3,700 pretty much for sure got themselves shot? Duterte took office on 30 June 2016 after the last Election.
We live in interesting and for sure strange times.
"The problem in our country is beyond of our expectation, beyond of our imagination that these illegal drugs in our country is really bad," he said in English at a press conference held by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.
"A lot of our government officials, elected officials are involved with this illegal drug," he said, defending Duterte's crackdown which has drawn global condemnation for alleged extrajudicial killings.
Pacquiao, who was elected to the Senate in May, also supports Duterte's call to restore the death penalty for drug traffickers in the mainly Catholic nation.
He himself is a convert to a conservative Christian sect. (Is now an Evangelical Protestant). I found it surprising that the Roman Catholic Church participation has fallen as follows: Catholic 82.9% (Roman Catholic 80.9%, Aglipayan 2%), Muslim 5%, Evangelical 2.8%, Iglesia ni Kristo 2.3%, other Christian 4.5%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.6%, none 0.1%. At one time in the high 90% s.
"My main focus is to change our country and hold our president's advocacy because the president and I are very close and join together to clean these illegal drugs in our country," he said.
He was visiting Tokyo to prepare for the opening of a new gym in his chain, the first to appear outside the Philippines.
The 37-year-old boxing superstar shocked the world of sport in September when he admitted in an interview he had used narcotics in his youth.
He said he "sampled" marijuana and "shabu", the local name for the cheap and highly addictive crystal meth stimulant, when he was 15 or 16.
At the Tokyo press conference, he made no secret of the fact he had tried illegal drugs before.
"But when I realised it's not good and I don't like it, then that's why I strongly oppose and fight these illegal drugs," he said.
Has been a quiet weekend up too now. Let us see what the new week brings? 'nuff said'.