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We Should Stop Fetishizing Privacy

2 points by homarp 7y ago

taneq 7y ago
I wonder whether it was Facebook or Google that paid for this article?
dredmorbius 7y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19999127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19999127
dredmorbius 7y ago
This abysmally poor and fatuously argued opinion piece transcends self parody and exemplifies fractal wrongness.
perfunctory 7y ago
By Heidi Messer. Ms. Messer is a technology investor and entrepreneur.
foolzcrow 7y ago
Obey. Obey. Obey. Obey. ---Totally Not Fascist.
salawat 7y ago
Did anyone else think using the term "fetishizing" was not just nonsensical in selection, but actually demonstrated a level of social myopia? Getting a little looser with language for a moment; privacy isn't something that one would classify as a fetish, as socially speaking, it's been the sensible default for centuries. Seems to me that the real subject of fetishization in this piece is exhibitionism. Specifically of everyone else. With the receiver of gratification from said visibility being tech companies. Maybe I'm about as straightforward as a series of hairpin turns, but this article did far better at convincing me that tech investors are desperately trying to convince everyone that it's totally okay, and everyone should walk around with their "personal information" out in the open for them to reap the benefits of, and there's absolutely no reason for anyone to second guess this at all, because <shiny economic buzzwords> without even a mention of second or third order implications of their viewpoint, which to be frank, I see as the most blatant form of intellectual and rhetorical dishonesty. I'm now stuck with a mental image in which the industry I work in is little more than a gaggle of peeping Toms, Voyeurs, and sexual predators all trying to legitimize what their doing watching everyone else as normal or the "new normal" because it's unthinkable that the future shouldn't allow the parasitic commoditization of everyone's personal data. I'm not even the most socially adept person out there, but this piece is a shocking illustration of what I consider to be malicious perception management. A very disconcerting read.

2 points by homarp 7y ago

taneq 7y ago

I wonder whether it was Facebook or Google that paid for this article?

dredmorbius 7y ago

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19999127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19999127

dredmorbius 7y ago

This abysmally poor and fatuously argued opinion piece transcends self parody and exemplifies fractal wrongness.

perfunctory 7y ago

By Heidi Messer. Ms. Messer is a technology investor and entrepreneur.

foolzcrow 7y ago

Obey. Obey. Obey. Obey. ---Totally Not Fascist.

salawat 7y ago

Did anyone else think using the term "fetishizing" was not just nonsensical in selection, but actually demonstrated a level of social myopia? Getting a little looser with language for a moment; privacy isn't something that one would classify as a fetish, as socially speaking, it's been the sensible default for centuries. Seems to me that the real subject of fetishization in this piece is exhibitionism. Specifically of everyone else. With the receiver of gratification from said visibility being tech companies. Maybe I'm about as straightforward as a series of hairpin turns, but this article did far better at convincing me that tech investors are desperately trying to convince everyone that it's totally okay, and everyone should walk around with their "personal information" out in the open for them to reap the benefits of, and there's absolutely no reason for anyone to second guess this at all, because <shiny economic buzzwords> without even a mention of second or third order implications of their viewpoint, which to be frank, I see as the most blatant form of intellectual and rhetorical dishonesty. I'm now stuck with a mental image in which the industry I work in is little more than a gaggle of peeping Toms, Voyeurs, and sexual predators all trying to legitimize what their doing watching everyone else as normal or the "new normal" because it's unthinkable that the future shouldn't allow the parasitic commoditization of everyone's personal data. I'm not even the most socially adept person out there, but this piece is a shocking illustration of what I consider to be malicious perception management. A very disconcerting read.