“Each time you write something and you send it out into the world and it becomes public, obviously everybody is free to do with it what he pleases, and this is as it should be. I do not have any quarrel with this. You should not try to hold your hand now on whatever may happen to what you have been thinking for yourself. You should rather try to learn from what other people do with it.”- Hannah Arendt (Remarks to the American Society of Christian Ethics, 1973)
– I took this from my professor’s Facebook note. Arendt seemed like she was talking in the present when she said this in 1973 – thirty-six years ago, when the Internet did not exist. This is very relevant in the present time when people get the misconception of “privacy” in anything they publish over the Internet.
