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This is a really bleak way to look at digital devices and their role in the world. Should you only write things you want the world to read on a computer, and fo
by giaour 5y ago
This is a really bleak way to look at digital devices and their role in the world. Should you only write things you want the world to read on a computer, and for everything else, just use pen and paper?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoIt is bleak but it's the reality that we have, not the reality we wish that we had.
- landryraccoon 5y agoHackernews is full of people with the skill and position to actually influence what decisions the tech world makes. It's much less forgivable for engineers and managers that work at Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, etc to be cynical and say "yeah Tech is evil what can you do" compared to the average person, and this site is full of people who are in those positions.
- na85 5y agoActually yes, sadly. Even HN won't let you delete your personal comments.
- seoulmetro 5y agoYes. Anything you write into your computer has the potential to be shared. The same way anything you write and send in the mail has the potential to be shared.
- giaour 5y agoAnd yet, if GMail published email exchanges of a protected nature between someone and their lawyer, would you just throw up your hands and say, alas, digital communication is cursed? Some digital activity should be considered private, and violating that privacy should have legal and social consequences.
- seoulmetro 5y agoI am already saying that digital communication is open. Emails included... >Some digital activity should be considered private Yeah, the ones which are mathematically proven to be private.