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When smartphones came I first said "I don't buy the camera and microphone that spy on me from my own money." Now you would be really a weirdo to not have one s
by randomNumber7 1y ago
When smartphones came I first said "I don't buy the camera and microphone that spy on me from my own money."
Now you would be really a weirdo to not have one since enough people gave in for small convenience to make it basically mandatory.
- wholinator2 1y agoTo be fair, "small convenience" is extremely reductive. The sum of human knowledge and instant communication with anyone anywhere the size of a graham cracker in your pocket is godlike power that anyone at any point in history would've rightly recognized as such
- lomase 1y agoMobile phones changed society in a way that not even Internet did. And they call it a "small conveninece".
- someguyiguess 1y agoYou’re conflating the phone and camera with the actual data collection. So that’s not a good argument