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There's a huge burden on individuals to prove that another organization is using data to persecute them and the definitions or persecution. Before GDPR did you
by fnord123 3y ago
There's a huge burden on individuals to prove that another organization is using data to persecute them and the definitions or persecution. Before GDPR did you know how vast the network of 3rd parties handling your data was? I didn't!
Without this, the next best thing is anonymity which is simpler to enforce and covers future eventualities.
>The solution is what it is in real offline life. A regulated legal framework that allows most and limits little, a open dynamic culture that accepts diversity and constant change.
The real offline life where people can be punished in the US for aiding abortions? Or where homosexuality is illegal in many countries? Or where people conflate a mental disorder (paedophilia) with a criminal act (child sex abuse) (intentionally edgy example to highlight the edge of what's acceptable).
>and the solutions are still the same - democracy, voting, making a noise, agitating our neighbours.
This is good advice for the Belarusians with bloodied faces and no change. Or the million people who marched against the Invasion of Iraq.
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoWe have many offline problems - yes abortion is now more or less illegal in the US. You know what chnaged that? voting. You know what can change it back. Democracy. A VPN won't. Democracy will. Double down on democracy. It's hard complicated and messy. But there are no silver bullets.
- midasuni 3y agoDo you know what drives democracy? People. Do you know what drives people? Targeted brainwashing from companies like Facebook.
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoNo. Just No. Look Brexit was shit. But it was democratic shit. 20 million people did not get tricked by their Facebook feeds. Hell 20 million people did not get mind controlled by Nigel Farage's "I'm just sayin" approach. 20 million people were asked "the country is run by thousands of highly educated, slightly patronising, articulate, over-achieving technocrats who want the best for everyone and frequently find the laws of unintended consequences bite and have not yet worked out that not everyone lives in leafy surrey. Do these people annoy you? vote now" Oh hell I don't know why 20 million people voted for economic and cultural self harm. Because we aren't sharing out the wealth properly I guess. But it was not because "we were tricked". It's because "we refuse to accept the model of how the world works thet you are operating on and want to use ours. The democratic version of Adam Savages "I reject your reality and substitute my own" The problem is without an agreed reality to substitute everyone put in their favourite untested political world view.
- midasuni 3y agoYes you are immune to the efforts of a trillion dollar industry that has spent the best pet of a century working out exactly how to manipulate you without you even knowing.
- graemep 3y agoThose of us who voted for Brexit think it beneficial, not "self harm". I agrred with your view of the consequnces I would have voted remain.
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoWow seriously? You think Brexit was beneficial? This is (afaik) an unusual point of view these days. So why did you vote and why do you think it's a good idea now ? (honest question)
- fnord123 3y agoThe Brexit leave campaign literally broke campaigning laws. Sibling post said it best: if you think you're immune to the trillion dollar brainwashing industry then you're fooling yourself.