I don’t think these people will ever realize anything, not until it severely fucks with their quality of life at least
It will severely suck very, very soon. As soon as they destabilize govs enough to get away with severe abuse of info.
Edit: they are destabilizing the ahit out of them quickly. This world is now a nightmare and not worth living in. But yeah, let’s criminalize abortions for kids who parents can’t afford them so they can be condemned to evergrowing poverty, shittier qualities of life, and depression. Yay!
That’s how you make work slaves …
already fucked. Frog, boiling water etc.
Also “No time to protest, need to pay those bills somehow”. And then “Too tired to protest”. I don’t like it but I understand.
No, they still don’t fucking get it. I’m so frustrated, I just stopped trying.
I’ve tried helping some spicy leftist groups and I’m still floored by how little the groups of people care who should absolutely know better. They will talk a big game but when it actually comes to implementation everyone immediately goes all “nothing to hide” like their years of constant guillotine reacts and memes won’t be pulled out in court the second they try to argue entrapment against some bullshit ci/undercover op.
I don’t think many people realize how aggressive a digital search warrant can get if you or someone dumber than you fucks around and finds that main character energy. At the end of the day you gotta absolutely minimize the amount of data that’s retained long term on systems.
“Ultimately, arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
— Edward Snowden
My boss literally said this to me yesterday. He was also outwardly concerned when I told him I closed my Facebook account and used a VPN.
Out of the loop here. What incident(s) brought about this realisation?
The UK, the EU and soon the U.S. making it mandatory to give your ID when you want to see anything “NSFW”.
Maybe also payment processors folding before puritan christian nationalists.
You’re too optimistic here. Such people will only realise their error if something bad happens to them that also screams at them that it was only possible because of their privacy eroding. They don’t usually connect the dots themselves.
Most people have been trained from a young age to value convenience over basically everything else. People also don’t like to step out of their comfort zone, and not having social media is seen by some as a social taboo and as isolationary by some.
Most people have been trained from a young age to value convenience over basically everything else.
This is the deal. Yes. People, at least here in the US, equate personal liberty with convenience; which is why you saw people willing to kidnap governors over being forced to wear a facemask, or attacking Red Lobster employees for being slow in bringing another basket of cheese biscuits.
Also why dead kids aren’t enough to get real progress on gun control.
I think when these tariffs really roll downhill and the supply chain is reconfigured within the next two years, the real and permanent impacts of Donald’s cavalier and reckless economic policies will be in full effect.
We are literally living in a horribly written sci-fi movie with so many incompetent villains, that are all trying to take over at once. Never let anyone have access to your life unless they have a very good reason. You’re not ‘hiding’ anything, you are preventing unscrupulous individuals from exploiting you. Do you leave your car or home unlocked with the keys in the door? Preventing a crime before it happens is the reason Privacy is important.
Do you leave your car or home unlocked with the keys in the door?
This is the best analogy, but people still don’t get it because those doors & locks are invisible to them. It’s all just technobabble to them, and the companies providing all that are doing their worst to keep it that way.
Are there any resources that compile a good counter-argument to this?
I can assure you, most of them still don’t care.
This is accurate. I have a degoogled phone, no mainstream social media, and Linux OS. I have talked to my wife about the reason for my choices, so she is not ignorant about privacy or data gathering issues. She still uses Instagram and Facebook etc. And while she is a bit alarmed at bill C-2 being tabled in Canada (which would share Canadian private citizen info with the USA) I doubt she will think about it next week.
I’d trade all my privacy and secrets if it meant we got to see the full Epstein files and everyone involved saw Justice.
