Aral BalkanJan 9, 2023

Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.

Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.

Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.

#privacy #humanRights #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism

Show threadFrankoJan 9, 2023
@aral the scarry thing is that one might not be able to even afford a Tesla car, but the same person might be in dire need for an artificial lens, or being blind instead.
We ARE talking extremes here, but only twenty odd years ago, opening other people's mail was illegal in big part of the world, and now it's part of standard procedure in the same places. Tech only makes it easier.
Show threadAral Balkan

@franko Exactly. The lie that became commonplace in the last decade or so was “if you don’t like it, just don’t use it.”

The underlying assumption being that these technologies are optional.

Once we recognise that no, these technologies are now essential to life in modern society, the only option we’re actually being presented with in the Silicon Valley model is whether we accept corporatocracy and the wholesale surrender of our human rights or whether we “choose” a hermitic existence.

Jan 9, 2023 at 9:53amWeb