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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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[Rant] You don't gain privacy, you just regain it (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not cynical, overall I think everything will be fine and will continue advocate for privacy. But all the effort towards privacy seems like kind of Sisyphus myth. I don't really gain anything by being privacy conscious, I just regain part of what people used to have before internet. Best case scenario is that I don't exist in eyes of big corps. This just adds to today's complexity which requires constant effort, just so that things wouldn't be taken from me.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel that as more people are getting caught up in technology, less people are actually interested in how things work or how problems can be fixed. Their mentality is that it should just work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Having technology requiring at least some understanding of it is a great filter for the internet. But that's gone.