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No crisis should go to waste. It's interesting how tech people will endlessly argue about some minor details regarding privacy in some mediocre-usage phone app
by waihtis 6y ago
No crisis should go to waste.
It's interesting how tech people will endlessly argue about some minor details regarding privacy in some mediocre-usage phone app but huge precedents like these are swallowed without criticism because of political stances.
- yulaow 6y agoFrom a point of view outside US, it seems to me that this is the consequence of the extreme polarization of the political situation in the US that happened in the last 8-6 years and brought what looks like a moral witch-hunt from both sides. Now, if the consequence is to strike a point against the enemy party, it seems both formations unconsciously agree to sacrifice some piece of democracy or freedom. In the end everybody lose and society decays.
- waihtis 6y agoExactly so. It's easy to argue against Trumpistas being a net negative to society on almost any level. It's much less easy to think about ways to negate them as a political force without hurting everyone else in the process, and it seems a lot of people don't even care about weighing costs and benefits. Unfortunately, when the modern political sphere is highly influenced by idiots on Twitter who are permanently stuck on first-level thinking, this is what you get.