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Imagine if the Founding Fathers decided to forgo western civilization and go live in the woods as nomadic hunter gatherers instead of standing up to British opp
by uabstraction 10y ago
Imagine if the Founding Fathers decided to forgo western civilization and go live in the woods as nomadic hunter gatherers instead of standing up to British oppression... Or if all the blacks just listened to Marcus Garvey and went back to Africa instead of participating in the American Civil Rights Movement. This is basically what you're suggesting.
We have the technological means to ensure reasonable levels of privacy. There's no excuse for lemon technology that exposes every intimate detail of our lives.
- necessity 10y ago... except Uber, Google, carriers, etc, are not oppressive.
- cowpig 10y agoThe fact that nobody's used a nuclear weapon offensively since WWII doesn't mean nuclear proliferation is fine. Similarly, the proliferation of extremely powerful information is obviously dangerous, regardless of whether it is causing active harm currently.