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Not the person who said this, but it's easy: Grow up in a country where the government listening in is common (without any transparent due process), and it beco
by BeetleB 6mo ago
Not the person who said this, but it's easy: Grow up in a country where the government listening in is common (without any transparent due process), and it becomes second nature.
And then add to that how easy it is to record phone conversations with today's phones (I've done it), it's easier on the brain to assume it's being recorded as opposed to wondering if it is.
But yes, I don't care about my dirty jokes being recorded :-) Illegal activity? Sure. But I solve that problem by not doing illegal things.
- elzbardico 6mo agoNot necessarily. Snowden has proven the US intelligence agencies can basically intercept anyone's electronic communications, and that they do this is a giant scale. And yet, we still see comments of people horrified when you said you assume as default that someone (or more likley, something) is listening. The normalcy bias is too strong.
- skinfaxi 6mo agoI'm not horrified that they think someone is listening, the horror was from them self censoring out of fear of surveillance.
- elzbardico 6mo agoI apologize for mis-reading you. but, being careful with this stuff can't hurt. Well, yes, it can hurt the society, but keep you safe from the powers that be.