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We may be interested in the deep details/debates the general public has no knowledge about. However i can assure you many people care about their privacy. They'
by southerntofu 6y ago
We may be interested in the deep details/debates the general public has no knowledge about. However i can assure you many people care about their privacy. They're not all ignorant, but they're usually powerless.
Wanna keep in touch with friends? Gotta use facebook. Wanna watch cool videos? Gotta use Youtube. etc.
But there's a very strong movement of non-tech persons for privacy, decentralization and free software/culture. In France, it's best exemplified by the Framasoft association which started from a network of teachers : https://framasoft.org/en/ https://framasoft.org/en/
- jkepler 6y agoI'm in France, and have met some of the excellent folks who help framasoft with their project to degooglize the Internet. I know a number of people who dispair, thinking they can't protect their privacy. But gradually, those who know a geek may be moving towards better software, as privacy respecting options with decent UX get developed, and as their FOSS-geek friend or family member patiently points out tools they can actually use.
- deckard1 6y agoMalice, apathy, ignorance, or simply don't care. They all look the same from a distance. With the same outcome. You eat your ham sandwich. But did you hear the pig cry out at the slaughter? The same people reading your comment right now are the same people sticking the knife in you. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair In 1998 people turned their back on the FSF and joined the "open source" initiative. Everything that has happened since has been inevitable.