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A very, very helpful article to help get people we fight with to understand why this is important for anyone and everyone. Send this to friends and family.

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[-] guismo@aussie.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

One thing I find it odd that I don't ever see mentioned is the most obvious: private data is money and power for companies. Do you like X (meta, google, literal moronic x, etc) company that much that you want to donate money to them and make them more powerful?

Almost no one would say yes. They don't care about their privacy, but they certainly don't think poor zuckeberg needs some donations and more power.

It's by far the biggest reason I care about my data. If I liked the company I wouldn't mind the donation. But only evil companies would try to profit from personal data, so that can't exist. My hate for these companies and my wish to see them destroyed far outweighs my concern with my privacy.

That includes governments of course. The one with the most spying, like the US or israel are the ones I hate the most and try as much as I can to not give them more power.

this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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