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Your condescending attitude is unnecessary and unwarranted, and your messages have done nothing to increase my awareness of actual evidence of privacy violation
by amatecha 4y ago
Your condescending attitude is unnecessary and unwarranted, and your messages have done nothing to increase my awareness of actual evidence of privacy violation. My stance of expecting assertions to include substantiating evidence is completely reasonable, and is a basic premise of accepting assertions as fact. The link you added - what's the purpose of that? It's some random user's unsubstantiated assertion. Was it supposed to be a joke, or... ?
btw RE: "everyone in the industry knows": https://www.logicalfallacies.org/argumentum-ad-populum.html https://www.logicalfallacies.org/argumentum-ad-populum.html I don't care if "everyone knows", if someone makes an extraordinary claim, my response is always "prove it". I don't believe things just because other people do.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoWas a bit embattled due to the numerous downvotes for supporting the post, likely due to shills. If you honestly want to learn about the subject I'd start with the PBS Frontline documentary called "The United States of Secrets." Next, learn about "surveillance capitalism." The Facebook and Social Dilemma, on Netflix are eye-openers. Another milestone was Apple giving their OS away for free. Combined with Linux always being free and popular on servers, that made expensive Windows a much harder sell. There's a big cost to develop a modern OS, so there's a great incentive to "monetize" away that cost. In practice that means advertising and surveillance which is exactly what you are seeing here. This is a story developing for over ten years. That a few pieces of the thousand piece puzzle are not delivered on a silver-platter is immaterial to the discussion.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoI've no time for solipsist arguments myself. Good evening.