Arvid OrtwigMar 8
Em 

A world without privacy is also a world without intimacy, without individuality, without diversity, and without democracy.

Certain politicians have clearly expressed they want a world without privacy.

We cannot let them have it passively. We must fight back for our rights. Now.

Or we will lose them.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification

Mar 6 at 4:36pmWeb
Show threadmaya_b 🇨🇦Mar 6

@Em0nM4stodon

"what do you have to hide?" is the wrong question.

"what would I like to share?" nothing.

Show threadArd the RichMar 6

@maya_b @Em0nM4stodon

"What made you deserve knowing?" is my instinctive reaction, followed by "or is that something you have to hide?"

Show threadRegMar 6

@Em0nM4stodon

Politicians and billionaires want a world without privacy for us but not for them.

They consider themselves above everyone else.

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesMar 6

@Em0nM4stodon @ReggieHere

(1m 20s)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FBpJkVdT2Jg

#privacy #privacymatters

What If We Started Tracking Politicians? | Utopia

YouTube
Show threadPaul WalkerMar 6
@Em0nM4stodon They only want a world without privacy for us. They’d be quite upset if we proposed the same scrutiny for them.
Show threadBen ToddMar 6

@arafel

As shown by Bezos 30 foot hedges he pays $1000 dollars in fines each month for and the servants passages his house has.

@Em0nM4stodon

Show threadPaul WalkerMar 6
@monkeyben @Em0nM4stodon Yeah, that’s the thing with absolute fines, past a certain point people just don’t notice them. One advantage the GDPR has, for any other faults.
Show threadPaul WalkerMar 6
@monkeyben @Em0nM4stodon I’m actually thinking maybe doubling the fine each time, for something like this (Bezos and trees he shouldn’t have). He’ll happily ignore the first $1000, even maybe the first year up to two million. Midway through the second year, when it’s up to $131 million, he might notice. End of year two, at $8 billion, I’m sure he would.
Show threadBen ToddMar 7

@arafel

That sounds like a really good idea 🙂

@Em0nM4stodon

Show threadclonedhumanMar 6

@Em0nM4stodon
We need to make it as difficult as possible for the billionaires and the government institutions they've captured to follow us.

Little things, like using a Linux build instead of garbage "Software-as-a-Service" corporate AI nets. Using, promoting, and funding FOSS alternatives to the SaaS corporate models, and moving as much of our activity (and money) as we can to the fediverse.

Little things we can all do. We know the world is going to shit--any little thing helps.

Show threadBen HammondMar 6

@Em0nM4stodon

Bruce Schneier expressed it really well back in 2006

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/05/the_eternal_value_of.html

The Eternal Value of Privacy - Schneier on Security

Finnish translation French translation [#1] French translation [#2] German translation Italian translation Japanese translation Polish translation Portuguese translation Spanish translation The most common retort against privacy advocates—by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures—is this line: “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?” Some clever answers: “If I’m not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me.” “Because the government gets to define what’s wrong, and they keep changing the definition.” “Because you might do something wrong with my information.” My problem with quips like these—as right as they are—is that they accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It’s not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect...

Schneier on Security
Show threadEm Mar 7
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Show threadbicipoiesisMar 7
@benh @Em0nM4stodon
"Too many wrongly characterize the debate as “security versus privacy.” The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. #Liberty requires #security without intrusion, security plus #privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that’s why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide."
Show threadeighteyesMar 6
@Em0nM4stodon How do we reconcile our desire for privacy with the need to be seen in an attention-based economy? I asked Richard Stallman this question and he had no answer for me.
Show threadLucKey ProductionsMar 11
@eighteyes How is that even a question? There's a difference between being allowed privacy and choosing to live as a complete hermit. Using envelopes and handing out flyers can coexist just fine. So can recording in the studio and rocking on the stage. The keyword is choice.
Show threadeighteyesMar 11
@LucKeyProductions as it stands, there are few options to participate in social media without giving up privacy. put another way, if we only focus on self-promotion, the very notion of privacy becomes irrelevant. I think recognition of this tension is crucial to preserving privacy as something we value.
Show threadđź’€ đť“•airchild đź’€Mar 6
@Em0nM4stodon Those same politicians get indignant when THEY are the ones being surveilled.
Show threadCassandrichMar 6
@Em0nM4stodon Thank you! I have an old thread from  I should dig up and republish about that: how lack of privacy destroys intimacy, by making it impossible to talk with the people you want that intimacy with because you're always considering what others who are listening in will do with the knowledge of your conversations.
Show threadLuna chanMar 7
@Em0nM4stodon Unplugging and moving to a cabin in the woods is preferable to living in a digital panoptican and I like technology.
Show threadViolet MadderMar 8

@Em0nM4stodon

Funny how those seem to be the same politicians that don't like democracy, either.

Show threadArnim Sommer 🇪🇺Mar 8
@Em0nM4stodon
So, if they don't like privacy, why do we let them have doors?
Show threadLucKey ProductionsMar 11
@Em0nM4stodon Don't forget to on-ramp new recruits. As long as libre gaming remains undervalued by the freedom/privacy community, we're heading for extinction. We have the tools, but lack the toys.