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> which isn't quite as bad as it sounds It is as bad as it sounds: not only the apologists of this rhetoric believe in the false securities of it themselves, b
by justsomehnguy 3y ago
> which isn't quite as bad as it sounds
It is as bad as it sounds: not only the apologists of this rhetoric believe in the false securities of it themselves, but they aggressively try to persuade everyone what if you don't want to be a nobody or have anything what you don't want to share with a complete strangers, including the government - then you are doing something illegal.
- kube-system 3y agoIt's not so much that digital security isn't important -- it's that if you are not a "nobody", and you have something to hide, digital security is further down your list of your worries. I think too many people think about "digital security" in isolation, without any human context or considerations of threat profile. Digital security without holistic human security is simply a math exercise.
- rixthefox 3y agoAs a addendum to this. I think many of the J6 crowd thought the same thing when posts they made online were used in evidence against them. You may have nothing to hide, but like Snowden said: "Saying you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say"* In both situations there is a loss of privacy and autonomy. At some point people just shut down, for the same reasons people behave differently when they know they are under surveillance verses when they think they're not. *paraphrasing