12 ms·
You believe this is all about you, when in fact it's about our societies and vulnerable categories of people (mostly the poor, and various religious, political,
by blub 8y ago
You believe this is all about you, when in fact it's about our societies and vulnerable categories of people (mostly the poor, and various religious, political, ethnic, etc minorities).
You're basically declaring at first they came for everybody else than me, but that's okay because I'm still okay!
If the effects of pervasive surveillance are a negative to society it doesn't matter that you're benefitting - your "bargain" will have to cease existing.
- diminoten 8y agoMy "bargain" is my choice, and the choice of anyone who wants to make it, and no one gets to rip that away from us because they're afraid of some boogeyman who will never come. The real conceit comes from people who think the rest of us don't know what we're doing; we do, and we don't care because it doesn't matter. Those people have no special information, and they're not smarter than us. There is no boogeyman, there are no "dire consequences", and the people peddling that nonsense are tilting at windmills.
- blub 8y agoNo one will come to you and forbid you from using Google or Facebook. If everything goes right, government and society will instead pressure those companies to offer honest alternatives to their existing spying-based services and make it cristal clear how one pays. The masochist, careless and indifferent will likely still be able to use the services they know and love, but their lack of interest will no longer be paid for by everyone. Smoking was also pretty cool at one point...
- diminoten 8y ago"Spying-based services" is some truly disingenuous labeling.