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I hope the good that comes from this (and the pandemic) is that people are more aware, and perhaps care more, about their digital privacy, and companies relentl

I hope the good that comes from this (and the pandemic) is that people are more aware, and perhaps care more, about their digital privacy, and companies relentless attack against it.

boringg 6y ago
I would hopes so but definitely wouldn’t bank on that.
frankfrankfrank 6y ago
I find it quite interesting you say that in the present time where we are staring down the barrel of global tyranny and most people don’t even have a clue what they’re looking at, let alone that this isn’t all actually fine the way things are as this virus is used to totally upend things through psychological warfare on the whole world, but mostly on the west. For example, we have long had what us communism in the form of subsidies, but now governments are literally running mentally planned economies with trillion dollar “bailout” after “bailout” that is literally deciding on where resources are allocated and which companies survive. What’s even worse, it’s even international communism as hundreds of millions of Americana’s wealth is being given to foreign countries like Sudan, Israel, etc. why exactly does Israel, a very advanced country, get $500 million of Americans’ wealth on top of what has already been given them just in the last year?
- tw25506007 6y ago
  The phenomenon you describe isn't "communism", nor is it recent. Private interests have long tried to use the unique power of the state to shield themselves from market forces. Unfortunately, the people have not only abetted that, but often demanded it; see the recent demands to enshrine extant ISPs as government-chartered monopolies (i.e., utilities) rather than remove the anti-competitive regulations that have fomented high costs and poor service. As for bailouts, there too the people have long been convinced that the government needs to "fix" the market. Unsurprisingly, the means by which these "fixes" occur happens to benefit the ruling class (politicians and corporate executives) and big firms, giving them a competitive advantage over would-be competitors, and thereby growing ever bigger.

I hope the good that comes from this (and the pandemic) is that people are more aware, and perhaps care more, about their digital privacy, and companies relentless attack against it.

boringg 6y ago

I would hopes so but definitely wouldn’t bank on that.

frankfrankfrank 6y ago

I find it quite interesting you say that in the present time where we are staring down the barrel of global tyranny and most people don’t even have a clue what they’re looking at, let alone that this isn’t all actually fine the way things are as this virus is used to totally upend things through psychological warfare on the whole world, but mostly on the west. For example, we have long had what us communism in the form of subsidies, but now governments are literally running mentally planned economies with trillion dollar “bailout” after “bailout” that is literally deciding on where resources are allocated and which companies survive. What’s even worse, it’s even international communism as hundreds of millions of Americana’s wealth is being given to foreign countries like Sudan, Israel, etc. why exactly does Israel, a very advanced country, get $500 million of Americans’ wealth on top of what has already been given them just in the last year?

tw25506007 6y ago
The phenomenon you describe isn't "communism", nor is it recent. Private interests have long tried to use the unique power of the state to shield themselves from market forces. Unfortunately, the people have not only abetted that, but often demanded it; see the recent demands to enshrine extant ISPs as government-chartered monopolies (i.e., utilities) rather than remove the anti-competitive regulations that have fomented high costs and poor service. As for bailouts, there too the people have long been convinced that the government needs to "fix" the market. Unsurprisingly, the means by which these "fixes" occur happens to benefit the ruling class (politicians and corporate executives) and big firms, giving them a competitive advantage over would-be competitors, and thereby growing ever bigger.