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Ah geeze, I come to this site to see the horrors of the sociopaths at the root of the terrible technologies that are destroying the planet I live on. The fact

Ah geeze, I come to this site to see the horrors of the sociopaths at the root of the terrible technologies that are destroying the planet I live on. The fact that this is an active question is depressing. The suspicion that, if it were possible, some tech bro would absolutely do it (and smugly justify it to themselves using Rokkos Basalisk or something) makes me actually angry. I get that you're just asking a hypothetical. If I asked "Hypothetical: what if we just killed all the technologists" you'd rightly see me as a horrible person. Damn. This site and its people. What an experience.

plsbenice34 2y ago
Would the average person even be against it? I am the most passionately pro-privacy person that i know, but i think it is a good question because society at large seems to not value privacy in the slightest. I think your outrage is probably unusual on a population level
- onemoresoop 2y ago
  The don’t value it because they think companies are not abusing this power too much. Little do they know…
  - plsbenice34 2y ago
    When i talk to people it seems like they know but they just dont care. They even think their phones are listening to their conversations to target ads.
    - fsflover 2y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20207348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20207348
    - rixthefox 2y ago
      It is well known that people change how they act when they know they are being watched. Even if they can't see it, just the threat of surveillance is enough to make people change their behavior. I say it is no different than the people who are claiming they don't care. They absolutely do care, but at this point, saying "no" makes you the odd one with obviously something to hide, so they do this from a place of duress. Unfortunately, I feel we are not too far from people finally snapping and going off the deep end because it's so pervasive and in-your-face that there is seemingly no escape left.
jahsome 2y ago
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- brookst 2y ago
  I agree that was the intent of the analogy but it’s not a great one. The idea that Disney, who has perverted IP laws globally for almost a century, should have equivalent ownership over their over-extracted copyrighted works to the same degree I have privacy for the thoughts in my own head? Really?
  - jahsome 2y ago
    What's with the unnecessary straw man? Who said any of that?

plsbenice34 2y ago

Would the average person even be against it? I am the most passionately pro-privacy person that i know, but i think it is a good question because society at large seems to not value privacy in the slightest. I think your outrage is probably unusual on a population level

onemoresoop 2y ago
The don’t value it because they think companies are not abusing this power too much. Little do they know…
- plsbenice34 2y ago
  When i talk to people it seems like they know but they just dont care. They even think their phones are listening to their conversations to target ads.
  - fsflover 2y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20207348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20207348
  - rixthefox 2y ago
    It is well known that people change how they act when they know they are being watched. Even if they can't see it, just the threat of surveillance is enough to make people change their behavior. I say it is no different than the people who are claiming they don't care. They absolutely do care, but at this point, saying "no" makes you the odd one with obviously something to hide, so they do this from a place of duress. Unfortunately, I feel we are not too far from people finally snapping and going off the deep end because it's so pervasive and in-your-face that there is seemingly no escape left.

jahsome 2y ago

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brookst 2y ago
I agree that was the intent of the analogy but it’s not a great one. The idea that Disney, who has perverted IP laws globally for almost a century, should have equivalent ownership over their over-extracted copyrighted works to the same degree I have privacy for the thoughts in my own head? Really?
- jahsome 2y ago
  What's with the unnecessary straw man? Who said any of that?