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you aren't paying attention to the trends. and the overall trend in modern world - especially within the OECD - is curtailing freedom in the name of some greate
by throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
you aren't paying attention to the trends. and the overall trend in modern world - especially within the OECD - is curtailing freedom in the name of some greater good.
we're one "cyber pandemic" away from all new consumer hardware being turned into locked down plastic toys for our own safety. and the seeds are already being planted in the minds of the public https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cyber+pandemic https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cyber+pandemic
- bsaul 4y agowe've had people being forbidden from taking trains or entering restaurants or going to the movies based on their vaccination status in western europe for very dubious sanitary reasons ( one could still be contamined with the black plague a enter those movies as long as they had covid vaccine, which was clearly not changing anything to the epidemic dynamics)... and nobody but a super small fringe minority cared I was building an e2e app at the time, and let me tell you i had a real existential crisis as to why i cared so much about people's privacy against their own will
- mw888 4y agoAnd what of the backdoor present in all consumer CPUs which intelligence agencies are exclusively allowed to purchase disabled? If you are making that argument, it seems like we’re already in quite dim a spot.
- throwaway0x7E6 4y agothat's a different can of worms, but yes, we are. it's just going to get way worse, and there's nothing we can do about that.