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Personally, I think the argument today is different. I see the kinds of data being collected about my child by school ed-tech vendors, and it's scary. Looking
by blagie 4y ago
Personally, I think the argument today is different. I see the kinds of data being collected about my child by school ed-tech vendors, and it's scary.
Looking backwards in history, Nazi Germany and Soviet police states are good examples of why having people know too much about you can get you killed, depending on political system.
Looking at the present, people's jobs and political careers are destroyed for having said things which were mainstream views a half-century ago. Statues are torn down of people who held perfectly mainstream views 150 years ago. I have no idea which of the things my child says and knows now will be taboo in another 50 years. I do know the schools are storing all of that in archives with a whole bunch of fly-by-night ed-tech vendors.
I don't know how this is going to end, but mark my words: This will end badly. We have a history and a present of persecuting people for less, and privacy is what protects us.