In conservative politics.

I didn’t realize that. What’re the best Proton alternatives?

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It’s not just government that is the problem. The problem is that the data has been collected. It’s still being collected. It already exists. And think about that incompetence you mentioned… do you think that data is safe from less incompetent actors?

The best time for action on protecting privacy was yesterday. The second best is right now.

I never said something shouldn’t be done about it or that it shouldn’t exist. I consider privacy a natural right that we should fight to protect. I’m just saying that, whether people realize it or not, it no longer exists. It has already been taken away, and the repercussions of that reality are going to echo through time.

Sorry ☹️

Privacy no longer exists; it’s now little more than an illusion.

If you use modern technology at all, even your own thoughts aren’t safe. Existing ad tech can intuit what you are thinking before you are even aware of it, and AI will be able to dig even deeper into your mind in the near future. There is no escape.

Fire and brimstone preachers used to scream about how God was always watching, but regardless of whether you believe in that sort thing, one thing is true: technology is always watching, and your identity and innermost thoughts can be reassembled at any time by any number of entities, and you wouldn’t even know.

Well look at that. I learned something today. Thanks.

https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/pardon-the-expression/toe-the-line-vs-tow-the-line/

So Fox News, OANN, etc?

Oh, you mean only biases that don’t tow the party line.

And when prices skyrocket and everyone but the hyper-rich suffers horribly, they will still blame it on “liberuhls” and “socialism” and any other boogeyman rather than accepting accountability.

And nevertheless still necessary to help protect these individuals from violent, institutional political persecution.

Until we start relentlessly clearing government and society of authoritarians, paper-thin protections like this are all we have, and we are ever likely to have again.

I’d suggest doing a little reading on what the political spectrum means, because they aren’t.

When you think a Siberian winter is normal spring weather, even ice cream seems warm.