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No Company Is So Important Its Existence Justifies Setting Up a Police State
- eveningcoffee 9y ago>What is data privacy? The term implies that if a company collects data about you, it should somehow protect that data. But I don’t think that’s the issue. I think the problem is that it collects data about you period. We shouldn’t let them do that. I really hope that there comes a day when he is not considered as complete lunatic by general populace.
- quadrangle 9y agoWe're already there. The general public today has no opinion of or knowledge of RMS. But maybe you mean you hope we have a day when these valid arguments he makes here aren't so far out of mainstream that people find them impossible to deal with?
- arca_vorago 9y agoVery much this. The real problem is getting the message to the masses when the message platforms that they use are controlled and censored.
- quadrangle 9y agoAside from the tiny side issue of my disagreement with RMS's make-work advocacy in railing against self-checkout at stores, this interview is remarkably well-put, concise, clear, and exceptionally important. I hope it gets widely read.