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Considering tech billionaires got rich by destroying our privacy, why do only they deserve a law protecting their privacy?
by nvy 2y ago
Considering tech billionaires got rich by destroying our privacy, why do only they deserve a law protecting their privacy?
- busterarm 2y agoThe same way children and women get special laws related to crimes that disproportionately affect them... How do you tell me you have no empathy for people higher up the status latter than you without telling me you have no empathy for people higher up the status ladder than you?
- AlexandrB 2y agoI think it's foolish to have empathy for people that have no empathy for me. I don't want to be tracked. A lot of very wealthy people have made their career (and fortune) off of tracking me against my will. Why would I care about their desire not to be tracked now?
- shadowgovt 2y agoIf they can afford a private jet they can afford a security detail. Yes, my empathy is limited at problems they can solve for themselves but choose not to, instead taking something from the rest of us.
- the_gastropod 2y agoThis is asinine. Flying in a private plane is a choice. Being a woman or a child is not.
- busterarm 2y agoNice victim blaming. Wearing that dress was a choice too. Maybe don't be a creepy piece of crap.
- nvy 2y agoBillionaires are not a protected class subject to undue discrimination. >How do you tell me you have no empathy for people higher up the status latter than you without telling me you have no empathy for people higher up the status ladder than you? Why should I have empathy for those who exploit me for their own personal gain?
- say_it_as_it_is 2y agoYou don't need to empathize. You simply need to respect privacy. People have lost privacy, and that's an issue to address directly rather than take privacy away from others.
- busterarm 2y agoEveryone's foaming at the mouth so hard to eat the rich that they don't mind eating themselves to get there. ...which is exactly how all of their revolutions have gone in practice... Jealousy is a powerful intoxicant.
- nvy 2y agoRight, but the biggest advocates for the destruction of privacy are the ones who just received legal protection for their private jets. They're getting protection for what they got rich destroying for the rest of us. I don't understand why this is so difficult to understand. Zuckerberg and his ilk got rich destroying my privacy, but somehow it's unseemly for me to not respect their privacy? Privacy for me but not for thee? I don't fucking think so.