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You don’t need to either/or these 2 concepts. Societies always have some amount of negative and positive freedoms. In Germany it’s illegal to do the Nazi salute
by xctr94 6y ago
You don’t need to either/or these 2 concepts. Societies always have some amount of negative and positive freedoms. In Germany it’s illegal to do the Nazi salute in public, which is a form of ideological censorship, but there’s a valid, widely accepted reason for that. On the other hand, privacy is a Human Right, so there’s also wide consensus as to its value. Violating the privacy of the masses, in order to sell more products, is not exactly something that is very defensible because we collectively seem to find it unethical.
- quotemstr 6y agoThe question-begging in your comment is astounding. Who decides that a certain level of public control over individual behavior is acceptable? Who decides what counts as privacy? I don't really care what Germany does. I'm not German and I didn't vote for the EU's GDPR or Germany's speech laws. And there sure as hell isn't a broad consensus in the US that tech censorship is okay despite activists trying to pretend that there is.