Subj : Re: the nothing to hide a
To   : Otto Reverse
From : Boraxman
Date : Sat Feb 12 2022 10:50 am

 Re: Re: the nothing to hide a
 By: Otto Reverse to Boraxman on Fri Feb 11 2022 12:35 pm

>  Bo>  >  > yeah what happened to do no evil
>
>  Bo>  > They removed that motto back in 2018 after doing a lot of evil.
>  Bo> Hasn't affected their popularity though.  Humans are happy with evil if
>  Bo> it is convienient for them.
>
> So true. Used to be a time when people wanted things like privacy simply for
> privacy's sake. Remember phone booths? Now people know (even if vaguely) tha
> Google/Apple/Amazon are listening in yet they still buy "smart speakers" etc
> for the convenience.

What perplexes me, is that there are people I know (admittedly few), who share
these concerns, greatly, but still buy these items.  One I know will talk about
Big Tech censorship, how Google skews its searches and manipulates us, but you
can "Hey Google" in his house and Google responds!

I think in part people arguing that privacy isn't important is a cope.  They
feel powerless, unwilling to fight or make the harder consumer choices to
maintain freedom, so they just reorganise their values to suit the situation
pushed upon then.

People only really started using this "privacy doesn't matter" argument once

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