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From a privacy standpoint AND the fact that everyone feels that everything must be uploaded to social media for narcissism points is one of my top worries. My
by loudtieblahblah 5y ago
From a privacy standpoint AND the fact that everyone feels that everything must be uploaded to social media for narcissism points is one of my top worries.
My problem is that attempts to legally curb this have gross implications for the rights of people to keep informed about ongoings in the world. We have a right to be able to show corrupt cops as much as we do criminals and rioters. We have a right to showcase protests when going well or when they're destructive. We have a right to film stuff like Rittenhouse's situation and use that information to jail or free him of charges.
And any corporation will exploit this citizen desire for 'privacy' and use it as a wedge to strip us of our power as citizens, nevermind to allow some information that is in line with establishment values but disallow information that runs contrary to it's power.
You can't solve all these problems at once.
Censorship - both from the state and monopoly actors in the private sector, is incredibly worrisome.
What would be the worst case scenario is that our privacy is utterly gone AND censorship, citing privacy concerns, never really addresses privacy in a practical way but does help corporations and states manipulate the public discourse and undermine our very democracy.
As far as i'm concerned - even as a privacy advocate - our privacy is gone. We lost this battle. Theere's things we can do to maximize our privacy and make it better but the toothpaste is never going back into the tube.
But this is a moment where censorship is about to be normalized in an extreme way and this is a fight that shouldn't be lost.
- newaccount74 5y agoI think you are wrong. I think there is a lot we can do with regard to privacy. We should not give up privacy protections because they could hypothetically be abused by people in power. Especially when the privacy protections have explicit exceptions for the cases you worry about.
- loudtieblahblah 5y agothere's no "hypothetical" to it. if someone in power can bend the law to protect their power, they will.