Veronica ExplainsYou still deserve privacy, even if you:
- don't use Linux
- use big social media sites
- aren't "techie"
- are just an average computer user
David Goldfield@meadow @veronica Absolutely. If someone says to me, "I have nothing to hide", I'll say, "Great. I'm glad to hear it. In that case, would you mind giving me your social security number? How about the key to your house or apartment? Your bank account and routing number? Your annual income?" ...
When people say "I have nothing to hide", what they're really trying to say is "I'm not doing anything illegal." Which is great but we all have something to hide.
When people say "I have nothing to hide", what they're really trying to say is "I'm not doing anything illegal." Which is great but we all have something to hide.
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧@DavidGoldfield @meadow @veronica
The 'I have nothing to hide' crowd is the same cohort who are happy to passively accept Nazism or whatever we want to call what's going on right now - which sounds hyperbolic, until we recall 'I have nothing to hide' in this environment also means: I'm white, I'm straight, I'm privileged, I'm not overtly critical of the regime, etc.
I've got no time for that s___ myself.
Every 'I've got nothing to hide' person I've ever bumped into has been of that ilk.
Cameron@f800gecko @DavidGoldfield @meadow @veronica yes a lot of the people who don’t care are people like this
@cameron29 @f800gecko @meadow @veronica Maybe some but there are others who may say such things who don't necessarily feel that way.
@DavidGoldfield @meadow @veronica
My current default response is:
"Let me ask you something. When you go to the bathroom, do you close the door? Why? Pooping isn't illegal, is it? You doing something shady in there you don't want me to know about?
Would you support security cameras installed in public bathrooms to make sure nobody was doing drugs in them?"
(Criminalization of drugs in general is also deeply unhelpful to society, but that's a separate issue.)
I can't decide whether I like mine or yours better. I'm going to start using both going forward.
sylvie@AVincentInSpace thats kind of long, surely you can shorten it to just "well youre literally hiding your body under clothes", wont work all that well during winter, so maybe go with "if you have nothing to hide then you can strip naked" or such
@sylvie it literally is illegal to be naked in public, though, so
@AVincentInSpace who said in public, but sure, ask them to unlock their phone and show <whatever they use for messaging> since they have nothing to hide