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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Normies just don't care about privacy (gist.github.com)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by ajz@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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(Found via https://mastodon.social/@hntooter but for some reason I can't find it on HN)

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Great essay, does a really great job of pointing out how condescending a lot of privacy advocates can be, and how using the socratic method is a much better way to get people to think about privacy.

I also want to add this related and wonderful essay that critiques how richard stallman does this, and also sees privacy and free software problems as individual problems requiring individualistic solutions, rather than collective ones requiring a unified approach.

https://archive.is/czq8c

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Great essay, I think it deserves its own post.

[–] SloppilyFloss@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Hope you don't mind if I post it. I'm sure it'll generate some great comments from fellow Lemmynauts, and I'd love to read them, especially after reading the comments on the article.