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(Please don't downvote just because I need some help.)

I was once a privacy nut. But it's getting so hard nowadays, and there are so many more important problems -- global warming, AI, the inevitable collapse of the current world order... how does privacy improve the world? Please help remind me.

I do approve of privacy, of course. All this protect-the-children flak is bullshit. I just can't remember why I thought it was something worth fighting for and preaching about.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

As for the USA, let me put it this way: If Trump gets elected, with the tech tools the govt has, we will see, at the very best, another Hong Kong, with anyone that disfavors the Repubs disappearing, some permanently. At the worst, we will see another Nazi Germany. He himself proposed executing people.

If you practice privacy and can teach others, your skills will be valuable to the underground resistance.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The sad thing is, given physical isolation these days, we'll all be executed alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It sounds like you have isolated yourself. That is a choice you made, that you can change in the future.

Also, words matter. Meaning matters. You might die alone many decades from now, but almost certainly you won't be executed. When you're feeling down and you intentionally choose words that are false, you're feeling your own state of mind.

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