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Privacy is Power
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You guys need to learn what a meme is.
A meme is a thing thats shared, so this becomes a meme when it’s posted to share with others.
The hell do YOU think a meme is?
The hell do YOU think a meme is?
This, and exclusively this:
(I do not personally agree)
Nah, this is the only true type of meme
A continuously adapted and shaped image, text or video that gets shared relentlessly.
If something keeps getting shared unchanged, I wouldn't actually consider it a meme, only if it's altered. Otherwise I would just call it a viral post or video or something.
Actually, it's pretty hard to define a meme now that I try to think about it...
Why?
I think they were referring to this community being called microblog memes and this post kinda not being a meme per se
Memes and jokes should have a basis in reality or they'll get shit on for being dumb. I know what a meme is. This was shit 🤷♂️
If I post shitty right wing memes do I get a free pass or does it end up in the right can't meme?
Do you think people wanting privacy is somehow a political stance? Even more so, a... leftist political stance?
Do tories not mind being spied on by their everything providers? xD
"I want convenience and I have nothing to hide, so I'm willing to give my data away."
Ok, but other people aren't.
Your vote affects other people.
It's great that your needs are met but people other than you will be hurt by this.
Meh. Pseudo-wisdom.
The wealthy rule with or without your information. They did just fine before the advent of scraping every data point about you off the internet, your phone, or card swipe. Your info today is just another datapoint in some company’s portfolio to be bought and sold.
Authoritarian governments get that way to protect wealth and power. It’s not your personal information that matters as much as what you say that matters. If you cannot be safe in expressing dissent and keep that private, then you’ve lost.
Information is an obscenely valuable resource and information asymmetry decides wars.
Yeah, tactical information. Locations of troops, resources, roads, bridges, opposition location, etc etc.
Not what I bought at the store.
Let’s not conflate the two.
All information is tactical information. Every bit of additional information strengthens control.
Knowing what every citizen buys from the store is an authoritarian government's wet dream.
Stop changing the subject to make yourself right.
You said “war” first, then you changed to “authoritarian governments.”
Pick one.
Don’t double down on your absolutist answer.
War is simply the most direct example. All information is power.
It's all identical. You're trying to distinguish between the exact same thing. Corporations aren't spending billions of dollars to spy on you because that information is worthless. It's incredibly effective as part of the process of changing behavior.
Spare me your histrionics. Just stop.
War is a blunt instrument. No Russian general is checking Ukrainian’s shopping lists. No Israeli official is checking what tiktoks the Palestinians are watching.
No, it is NOT all identical. You’re manufacturing scenarios that don’t exist. You've jumped from war to authoritarians to corporations just throwing as many darts at the board as you can while pounding the table and making huge leaps to conflate everything. There’s zero logic to your rant. Whatever.
Did you even read the OP? It's not just about war. It's about the power of privacy across the board.
The literal only thing splitting information into "tactical information" tells anyone is that the person doing so is clueless and absurdly unimaginative. Again, ignoring that totalitarian governments are completely within scope, "basic" spying has expose sensitive military installations, among many, many other things.
Did you even read my disagreement with the OP or did you just skip to my disagreements out of context?
Unfortunately, I did.
There is no context where your "disagreements" have a shred of merit. They're pure idiocy.
I have nothing to hide: takes lock off front door, removes pin from phone, tells everyone who asks pin to debit card, accepts all cookies automatically, fills out invasive surveys for vouchers.
If you give your data to companies, they'll sell it to the government, circumventing legal processes that are supposed to protect against warrantless spying.
I was having a parking dispute with my apartment manager where I was borrowing a vehicle while mine was in the shop. She sent a warning letter to not park it there. After unsuccessfully trying to state my case, I asked to speak to the owners for their understanding. She said absolutely not and refused to give me any information about them. I decided to do some online research with her name and company to find out the owner's identity but was only able to find her arrest history instead, I even found her date of birth and address. It turns out she was arrested three times for drunk driving and being under the influence of other narcotics with the last time happening just months before.
I can find some dirt that could potentially be used to blackmail my manager but couldn't find a single piece of information about the owners of a large apartment complex. Privacy is indeed power.
always hass been. personal datas are new oil of world
Privacy is power and by stealing privacy yout get the power.
The thing that is valued the most is convenience or we wouldn't be in this situation
Privacy has nothing to do with the fascist or autoritive state. Nonsense stuff.
It seems you have not lived in a fascist or autoritive state yet so you didn't experience it, good for you.
Privacy.. who gave you that private info in the first place?
Is it your bank account # or the banks? Is it your ss# or the governments Is it your email address or Google's?
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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