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cuyguy:
Some advertisements I have come across recently and that I’d like to share with the world:
The first one is a campaign for the use of condoms. The poster reads: “I want it conventional” followed by “Do it, but do it with - with knowledge and condoms you protect yourself from HIV and lower the risk of infection with another STI”
The tagline “Mach’s mit” (do it with) has been in use for almost as long as I can remember. It’s a campaign run by the “federal center for health education”.
The second one’s tagline is “no reason to be ashamed, but to accept help” and continues to state that “Each rape is a medical emergency. You will be helped in the hospital”. The linked website contains information on STI/STD, help with filing a criminal complaint including help with getting a physical checkup with securing of evidence, information for male victims and a lot more.
A personal note:
the first campaign is one I really like. They have a website (in German) here… and as you can see, the faces of the campaign are both men and women, of all types… actors, musicians, athletes, young, old, and of different colours. The tagline is always a lighthearted jab at expectations toward the depicted person… for example a (female) boxer with the tagline “I want it soft”, or a (female) comedienne with “I want it serious”. The ads are lighthearted, diverse and frank. That’s how ads for safe sex should be. Diverse people telling us openly that they like having sex, and they want to have it safely.
I haven’t seen the second campaign around but I really like the posters I keep seeing around the city (all seven or eight versions I’ve found so far. always happy to see more!). Now I hope the second campaign shows up here too, because hell yes that needs to be shouted from the rooftops! … or the billboards, I guess.
That second campaign is a local thing - it’s focused on victims from the FFM metropolitan area. But I agree, it would be nice, if an information portal like that was available everywhere to everybody, with relevant local resources (phone help lines, hospitals, doctors…).
Some advertisements I have come across recently and that I’d like to share with the world:
The first one is a campaign for the use of condoms. The poster reads: “I want it conventional” followed by “Do it, but do it with - with knowledge and condoms you protect yourself from HIV and lower the risk of infection with another STI”
The tagline “Mach’s mit” (do it with) has been in use for almost as long as I can remember. It’s a campaign run by the “federal center for health education”.
The second one’s tagline is “no reason to be ashamed, but to accept help” and continues to state that “Each rape is a medical emergency. You will be helped in the hospital”. The linked website contains information on STI/STD, help with filing a criminal complaint including help with getting a physical checkup with securing of evidence, information for male victims and a lot more.
continuations:
By now it is no longer a secret that the NSA has been conducting a massive data gathering effort on US citizens. Let me say right up front: doing this in secret and reviewed only in closed door hearings and subject only to a secret court is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. The potential for abuse, especially when combined with other excessive powers given to government by the Patriot Act, is simply unacceptable.
On the other side I completely see why having this data could in fact be extremely helpful in identifying criminal and terrorist activity before it occurs. Google’s big breakthrough in search was page rank, an algorithm that exploited the structure of the netwok. In quite an analogous fashion you could come up with some notion of a “crime rank” based on someone’s connections in the network. This would allow for discovery of people and activities from the data which is quite different from the traditional model of having to find someone first and then getting their data.
Now what we need as a society instead of just yelling at each other is an open discussion about these capabilities and whether or not there is a democracy compatible way of operating and deploying them. Again, just going ahead and doing it in secrecy is definitely not the answer. But neither is rejecting any and all kind of network analysis as a potentially legitimate tool in a democracy.
What gives the US-American NSA the right to spy on Europeans, Africans, Asians and South-Americans? Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo… those are companies with international users, who just happen to have their data stored on servers in the US.
This is not just an issue of American democracy, it’s an issue of international politics and it’s proof for the need of international internet law.
