alt Hacker NewsI'm always surprised how defensive people get in here about privacy when so many corporations have vastly more information about you than the government does.
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This isn’t a “gotcha”. Many here take exceptional steps against this kind of thing and also advocate for restrictions on what kind of data corporations can collect.
Privacy doomerism is a form of complicity.
Corporations can't arrest and jail me. The most they can do is file a lawsuit.
Because most here works in said corporations.
Governments and Companies have different motivations.
Governments want control, Companies want money. Control typically comes from a reduction in rights, freedoms, money. When you fail to give those up "naturally" violence, worsened living conditions and abuse are the tools used.
More the reason to be defensive about it and fighting back corpo and government.
"I'm surprised how much people hate this thing when this other thing, which they also hate, is even worse"?
The corporations aren't going to throw you in jail if you cross state lines to get an abortion. The US government is already doing this when they get that data.
The government has a monopoly on violence and companies do not.