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Pornography (and prostitution) have existed for the entire history of human civilization. You wouldn't claim that Ancient Egypt or Greece were robbing their cit
by cyphar 9y ago
Pornography (and prostitution) have existed for the entire history of human civilization. You wouldn't claim that Ancient Egypt or Greece were robbing their citizens of their freedom through those things.
I agree that there is a huge ignorance of ethics in today's world of software development, and I wish we stopped putting so much of ourselves online, I don't see why sex is the one thing you think is more important than the thousands of other violations of privacy and humanity that happens online.
Also, the porn industry has brought about a lot of different interesting new technologies that eventually bled into the rest of the tech industry (credit card verification is one trivial example, there's plenty of others).
- kafkaesq 9y agoPornography (and prostitution) have existed for the entire history of human civilization. Again -- I wasn't referring to porn, per se. I think that's pretty clear. I don't see why sex is the one thing you think is more important than the thousands of other violations of privacy and humanity that happens online. I guess because sex is (orders of magnitude) more important than most other activities we put "online", and more to the point, into corporate (and SIGINT) data warehouses? For who knows how many weird, lonely men to tabulate and analyze?
- cyphar 9y ago> I guess because sex is (orders of magnitude) more important than most other activities we put "online" I find internet-connected-dildos to be less important than the free speech violations due to censorship, the rampant disregard for user freedoms, proprietary software's use as spyware, the massive surveillance engine injesting information about all of us, an so on.
- kafkaesq 9y agoYou're comparing against the extremal cases. I was referring to "most" activities. You know, things like your likes and your playlists, your Etsy purchases, etc.
- ionised 9y ago> I guess because sex is (orders of magnitude) more important than most other activities To you. To some of us it isn't that big a deal and is best treated lightly.