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

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    leftists better start caring about privacy because we will be the ones to be fucked the most by the lack of it.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        3 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 [he/him]
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          3 months ago

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

          Fuckerberg said something similar when he declared that privacy as a concept was obsolete in the grand and glorious bazinga future, and then a few days later had an ultra-secret wedding ceremony with an ultra secret guest list in a completely blacked out location. doomer

          • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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            3 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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        3 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

    • emberpunk@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      100% And it shouldn't be too hard. I'm pretty sure it was largely leftists against draconian surveillance that started in the 2000s.