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You're not concerned about my rights. Why should I be concerned about yours? Seriously--if you're abusing my privacy by tracking me without my consent (without
by monochromatic 8y ago
You're not concerned about my rights. Why should I be concerned about yours?
Seriously--if you're abusing my privacy by tracking me without my consent (without my ACTUAL consent), what makes you think you have any moral claim whatsoever over me?
- jenscow 8y agoTwo wrongs don't make a right. You really don't want to be sending offensive material out to people. you don't know who the recipient could be. The chances are it's just their job, and the decision to track you wasn't theirs.
- sincerely 8y agoRemember how we, as a society, pretty much unanimously decided "it's just their job" wasn't a valid excuse...about half a century ago ?
- platinumrad 8y agoThere's a fairly big difference in severity between web tracking and the Holocaust.
- sincerely 8y agoObviously, but that doesn't change the validity of the argument
- platinumrad 8y agoThe point is that "just doing your job" when your job is web advertising does not warrant a (psychologically) violent response while "just doing your job' when your job is the Holocaust does warrant a violent response.
- ionised 8y agoWhy is that our problem?
- platinumrad 8y agoJust because someone violates your rights in some way doesn't mean that you can now do literally anything in response. I agree that web tracking is pernicious but responding proportionally is important. The person who ends up clicking on that link very well may have no decision making power in their organization. There's a good chance they're some random minimum wage contractor that found the job through a temp agency. Why is it okay for you to subject them to potentially traumatic content?