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and the reverse, we use these examples to highlight things you might not want to come out now but what happens when there's a marked shift in the political stan
by sleepychu 9y ago
and the reverse, we use these examples to highlight things you might not want to come out now but what happens when there's a marked shift in the political stance to e.g. Homosexuality/Transgender people?
Say an ultra-conservative government was elected on a platform of hate towards people that we're currently moving towards accepting, wouldn't you want it to be hard for someone to find out if you spent a lot of time looking at certain materials relating to those topics?
- emodendroket 9y agoYou don't need to cast it as some outlandish scenario, since there are many countries where being gay (or, to use the example in the OP, watching porn) are illegal and violators are really subject to penalties.
- sleepychu 9y agoTo be clear, my stance is that laws that make it illegal to be homosexual are wrong. With that said, in your example those people are actively breaking the law and if you're using the internet to break the law today I don't see a lot of problem with the government tracking that back to you. My concern is large scale collection of records of acts which are then turned into crimes/persecuted groups and I think that's what people should primarily concern themselves with when it comes to the present internet privacy debate.