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This sentiment lacks perspective. You know yourself how much of a hassle it is to preserve your privacy or rights, and how ineffective it can still be with lots
by pessimizer 3y ago
This sentiment lacks perspective. You know yourself how much of a hassle it is to preserve your privacy or rights, and how ineffective it can still be with lots of effort and a lot of technical knowledge. Tech is not other people's hobby and job, they've got other things to worry about. If you ask them, they'll tell you how they feel about their privacy, but they can't invest the time you have into understanding how to preserve it.
They give up their privacy and go to work. They give up their privacy and go to school. They give up their privacy to have a laugh. It's a horrible investment of time and effort for them to live in hyperawareness of actual threats that are also almost impossible to avoid. That doesn't make them responsible for their plight any more than a antebellum slave that fails to escape the plantation.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y agoIt is a valid argument. I actually agree with you ( and OP ). The point I am making is that we simply cannot take the blame off the victims either. Unlike plantation slaves they actually do have a choice ( an annoying choice, but a choice nonetheless ). It is hard, if not plain impossible, to move the needle if the general population response is a generalized shrug. They need to get angry. They are not there. So yeah, I am accepting my share of the blame. People in general need to accept theirs. Once that happens, we can go after the actual culprits. Things don't change until we recognize reality for what it is.