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"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because yo
by jakobdabo 10y ago
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
- Edward Snowden
- masmullin 10y agoThat argument isn't good enough, unfortunately. As many people will respond with "well, yeah, I don't have anything important to say."
- xorxornop 10y agoThe fact that they can't even think that they might want to be able to say "I value my human rights" at some point is severely worrying. Bunch of philosophical zombies. If they're anything other than white skinned, blue eyed, blonde haired, heterosexual, male, centrist-politically leaning (or one of the other few extremely simplistic predefined options - analogy: the block-shapes-through-the-board children's game) - history called. It's got some advice to give - but, of course, barely anyone is listening. (except the government. No, they're listening plenty... just not to history - they're too busy listening to the sound of hubris!)
- wallace_f 10y agoBut everybody is equal!