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http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/mmid/francophone/2005-0922-51

Wikiveillance:

The people comprising the "power elite" (the aristocracy, government, > > > commerce triumvirate) have historically performed as much surveillance
> > > (information gathering, analysis and retention) as technically possible
> > > on the massive majority they consider to be their inferiors and charges.
> > > They have abused their continually increasing abilities in this area to
> > > gain ever more power over, and at the expense of, the comparitively
> > > "power impoverished" masses. There may well never be much that the masses
> > > can do to prevent such activities of the power elite, however, with the
> > > advent of the Internet and, especially, of Wikis, the masses finally have
> > > the abilility to conduct significant surveillance of the "power elite" as
> > > well(ie. to watch the watchers, to engage in sousveillance [cite:
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance]).
> > >
> > > I therefore propose a Wiki (preferably, Wikimedia) project called
> > > something like Wikiveillance, wherein "we the people" gather, analyse and
> > > retain information about the "power elite". For example, consider the
> > > information in the following link...
> > >
> > > http://www.hsbc.com/hsbc/about_hsbc/board-of-directors
> > >
> > > This is a list of the Board of Directors of HSBC, a huge international
> > > bank headquartered in London (oddly and of course). On another web page,
> > > the bank's name and origin is explained.

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