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1. You're only addressing the privacy component and leaving out the psychological / sociological / political components of the criticism. 2. The harms of priva
by elefanten 7y ago
1. You're only addressing the privacy component and leaving out the psychological / sociological / political components of the criticism.
2. The harms of privacy violations are hard to quantify the same way as deaths or dollars. But collapsing them down to "feeling a little squicky" vastly undershoots. There's a category of very large potential harms that come from privacy violations and littany of smaller more direct / likely harms. There is a lot of literature on this.
3. The comparison between Facebook and Phillip Morris to which you're responding was not framed in terms of deathcount or health harm. So your reading of the comparison along those lines was bound to be troubled.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y ago> 2. The harms of privacy violations are hard to quantify the same way as deaths or dollars. I'm not saying it's easy, but I am saying that no matter how you want to frame it, there's no chance it's even in the same ballpark, even with the psychosocial aspects that you rightly corrected me for ignoring. > 3. The comparison between Facebook and Phillip Morris to which you're responding was not framed in terms of deathcount or health harm. So your reading of the comparison along those lines was bound to be troubled. I think suggesting a similar policy treatment implies a certain equivalency of harm done. Whether the fine article explicitly makes that claim is beside the point, IMO.
- skinnymuch 7y agoIs it vastly undershooting compared to death? It seems like it is perfectly appropriate to say death from smoking is far far worse.