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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20660586

“At any given moment, there is something or someone watching you,” sociologist Francisco Lara-García tells The Markup

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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The only people I've ever met who really cared about privacy were leftists.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide."

All well and good until the state decides to throw you in a black site for talking about unionization at work or giving a sandwich to a homeless person.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide."

Fuckerberg said something similar when he declared that privacy as a concept was obsolete in the grand and glorious bazinga future, and then a few days later had an ultra-secret wedding ceremony with an ultra secret guest list in a completely blacked out location. doomer

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Also that time he tried to buy even more land around his property or put up a fence or something like that - it's been a long time since I read it - that would have impacted access of native Hawaiian people. For "privacy." Fucking nerd-king.

[–] emberpunk@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a good amount of libertarian get off my lawn types that do too.

Maybe they just don't see or can't connect how capitalism and enshittification regarding privacy are connected

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

True, good point.