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Why would anyone disagree with you publicly? Everyone I know who hates this stuff says so on the edge of normal conversations, couched in a wait-and-see vibe.
by friendlybus 6y ago
Why would anyone disagree with you publicly?
Everyone I know who hates this stuff says so on the edge of normal conversations, couched in a wait-and-see vibe. Google Home gifts go unopened and tech devices are excluded from certain areas.
The dialogue has become a scary game.
- crocodiletears 6y agoThis is exactly what happened. Five years ago, I got sick of being called a conspiracy theorist, shut my mouth, and focused on my own privacy. Now the public generally seems to have a sense of what's happened to privacy, but has given up do to the upkeep required to avoid our ubiquitous surveillance machine. The people in my circle who still think there's hope won't buy smart devices, but won't go further, because to do so would lock them out of large chunks of modern society, or require them to maintain a level of technical skill and perform certain kinds of upkeep which would disadvantage them in the long run. The world's complex, many of us are living at the margins of insolvency. The bandwidth required to fight the panopticon is too damn high, and unless done very well, only produces a moral victory ('I'm fighting the system as best I can').