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What? Can you repeat that, but explain it more clearly?
by AndyKelley 13y ago
What? Can you repeat that, but explain it more clearly?
- miguelrochefort 13y agoPrivacy has no intrinsic value whatsoever. All it does is slow down those who can use information against people. To win, we must fight the threat (government). Privacy only gives us time, which itself won't solve anything.
- qxcv 13y ago> To win, we must fight the threat (government). Yes, because governments are the only entities that want your private data.
- miguelrochefort 13y agoThere's no such thing as "private data".
- greyman 13y ago> Privacy has no intrinsic value whatsoever. I don't believe you seriously mean it.
- miguelrochefort 13y agoI absolutely do.
- vacri 13y agoDo you leave your doors open all the time, allowing strangers through your abode to perhaps help themselves to a drink or use your toilet? Some degree of personal privacy is necessary for most people to feel safe. There aren't many cultures that do have completely open living arrangements, and those that do tend to be small tribal affairs where people generally know each other.
- noerps 13y agoThe concept of privacy is inherent for dubio pro reo. If you take away or reduce privacy everybody is guilty by association - qed.
- miguelrochefort 13y agoBut then you can't jail everyone. That's where you stop living a lie and adapt laws to reality.
- noerps 13y agoA system of prison-labour combined with house arrest or curfews - if you look at it from a government perspective it is possible to imprison everybody. I suggest you spent some time reading about oppressive governments before you state you can't do it.