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We may be losing privacy, but whether we're losing power and freedom is another thing. It's important to accept a changing world. Luddites have railed against
by mindfulhack 7y ago
We may be losing privacy, but whether we're losing power and freedom is another thing.
It's important to accept a changing world. Luddites have railed against 'immoral' new technologies that will cause the end of the world, time and time again.
This adjustment is going to be hard. I believe privacy is a fundamental human right.
But if technology makes this concept obsolete, then we must adapt.
We may have to change our tune to defending radical acceptance of difference and fighting against thought policing and over-policing of divergent human behaviour - not the mere detection of it. Without the freedom for such creativity and normal humanness, we are doomed.
- Pfhreak 7y agoLuddites didn't rail against the immorality of technology, they were concerned with capitalists rapidly replacing skilled workers with unskilled workers and reducing wages across the board. They were not anti-technology and they were typically highly trained workers capable of operating complex pieces of machinery. It had nothing to do with a sense of 'technology morality' and everything to do with class warfare and standing up for the worker.
- ryacko 7y ago>But if technology makes this concept obsolete, then we must adapt. The point of the Third Amendment is that people do lie. Do you trust the King's soldiers to report on the coming and goings around your house truthfully?