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“At any given moment, there is something or someone watching you,” sociologist Francisco Lara-García tells The Markup

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20660586

“At any given moment, there is something or someone watching you,” sociologist Francisco Lara-García tells The Markup

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      "If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide."

      All well and good until the state decides to throw you in a black site for talking about unionization at work or giving a sandwich to a homeless person.

      • UlyssesT
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        2 months ago

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        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          Also that time he tried to buy even more land around his property or put up a fence or something like that - it's been a long time since I read it - that would have impacted access of native Hawaiian people. For "privacy." Fucking nerd-king.

    • emberpunk@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      There's a good amount of libertarian get off my lawn types that do too.

      Maybe they just don't see or can't connect how capitalism and enshittification regarding privacy are connected