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https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html 1993 — feels so far away now. Even us techies have become

• literalAardvark 2y ago
  They're drowned out by the eternal September, but they're out there. Expecting most of the population to care about privacy is extraordinary.
• aleph_minus_one 2y ago
  > Even us techies have become either posers or corporate lackeys, and no one is left to fight for privacy in the digital space. I have a feeling that this depends a lot on the country: In the USA, there is now big money to be made in programming jobs, so a lot of people have become what you call "posers or corporate lackeys". Money makes it easy to look away from mass surveillance. On the other hand, in Germany, you can live off of being a programmer, but you very likely won't become rich this way. Additionally in Germany there is, based on the experience of two dictatorships on German soil in the 20th century (where the crimes of the GDR have barely accounted for), much more of a privacy culture at least in some circles than I observe in many other countries.
  • pjmlp 2y ago
    And yet elections went down as they did, because newer generations think it is only fairy tales to scare kids at night. So many lost lessons.