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It's an analogy, try to think about what makes the two situations similar even though they are not exactly the same.
by bondarchuk 2y ago
It's an analogy, try to think about what makes the two situations similar even though they are not exactly the same.
- coldpie 2y agoMy website stores your IP address in its access logs. Am I breaking into your home and stealing stuff? The details matter.
- bondarchuk 2y agoNo, you are not breaking into my home and stealing stuff. Nevertheless, an analogy can be made between breaking into my home and stealing stuff, and taking my data without consent. "Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share." - try again to think what the third element could be in this case - I'm sure you can do it!
- coldpie 2y ago> Nevertheless, an analogy can be made between breaking into my home and stealing stuff, and taking my data without consent. I disagree. Breaking into a home and stealing stuff is obviously harmful. I don't think you have demonstrated the harm of "taking your data".
- bondarchuk 2y agoThere we go; now you know the point of comparison is not that both are "obviously harmful". What else might it be?
- coldpie 2y agoI don't know, man. Use your words.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoI'll clarify: It's theirs, not yours. Fundamentally, it's not about harm - it's about you getting stuff you have no (moral, cultural, and in many places legal) right to. As for harm: there is possibility of it, a lot of software does collect data for it to be used against users' interests, and I have no reason to believe yours isn't one of them.
- Kim_Bruning 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 'Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. '