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The antidote is to pretend everything you say to a computer is public record. That’s not reasonable, of course, but having it in mind changes your behavior.
by sillysaurusx 6y ago
The antidote is to pretend everything you say to a computer is public record.
That’s not reasonable, of course, but having it in mind changes your behavior.
- xiphias2 6y agoThe problem with this is that socializing moved to be digital, especially with COVID-19. Pseudonyms help a little bit, but it's still easy for an attacker to know who you really are.
- starfallg 6y agoThe mass usage of pseudonyms has the drawback of facilitating the spread of 'bad' information in such a model though. The web-of-trust breaks down with the prevalence of pseudonymous throwaway accounts (which can also be farmed, like on Reddit).
- dividedbyzero 6y agoThis isn't feasible, not even remotely. I work from home, do I just stop doing my job? Because I cannot possibly work under such an assumption, at all. I can pretend to, but there is way enough that I must communicate that really should not become public. A lot of other people are in the same boat I guess, especially these days. Also, not sending anything remotely personal through my phone would make it very, very hard to keep in touch with friends and family. I can't travel to see all of them all the time, and Covid makes meeting the local ones really difficult, too. I don't think it's constructive to cast huge societal issues as individual failings, with remedies that are absurdly impractical. That only helps to perpetuate the problem.
- anoonmoose 6y agoI think you're really over-estimating how much of what you say would be bad if it were public record, to be honest.
- paulcole 6y agoAlso the fact that if literally everything everyone said on a computer was public record it'd be so noisy and such a mess nobody would bother looking at what random average people are saying.