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I used to have a book dropped off at my house that had the names, phone numbers, and physical addresses of everyone in my area.
by paulddraper 3mo ago
I used to have a book dropped off at my house that had the names, phone numbers, and physical addresses of everyone in my area.
- FatherOfCurses 3mo agoAre you seriously comparing an analog phonebook to machine-searchable structured data made available in a data breach?
- paulddraper 3mo agoI'm saying allowing distributing books but criminalizing distributing the digital version is an overrotation. As much as extreme viewpoints play well on the internet.
- delta_p_delta_x 3mo agoWhat you didn't have was a computerised database which could spam everyone on that list in milliseconds, or profile everyone's character, purchase history, medical history, and more. We used to do a lot of worse stuff too, like eat radium hoping for brighter skin.