alt Hacker NewsI'm reading your comment as sarcasm, but I do have a non-sarcastic hot take on it.
If we have to live in a panopticon I think access to the data should be available to everyone. That eliminates the power imbalance and/or makes the idea of the thing distasteful to powerful people who might actually try to restore privacy and eliminate the panopticon.
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hypercube33 • yesterday at 3:59 PM
Power is then moved to whomever owns the most computer power and perhaps education
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potsandpans • yesterday at 4:01 PM
> If we have to live in a panopticon...
So that's where we are now? "If we have to live in the torture nexus, let's at least make it equitable"
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If those wish to preserve privacy want to be effective, there needs to be a pragmatism in understanding differing opinions. Reducing opponents to caricatures and fighting those is a losers strategy. It will guarantee defeat.
Being able to accurately articulate a position one doesn't possess themselves is necessary to effectively countering it.