I try to make my relatives understand that this is something important, to put forward rational arguments, but they refuse me, saying that it would only complicate their lives, so it’s useless. I’m seen as the paranoid of the gang. So how would you convince your friends?
If the government announced they would be installing surveillance equipment in everyone’s home and on their person, they would riot in the street. However if people are told they can play video games on the device, they will camp in front of the store in the dead of winter to spend an entire month’s wage so they can install it themselves. Then they’ll even compulsively take it into the bathroom and bedroom also. That’s the mentality we’re up against.
it’s also the mentality we were up against the last 3000 years: panem et circenses
you’re absolutely right of course
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I don’t understand what you mean by any of that. Your post basically has no value to me because you don’t specify what my “sacred cow” is, why you think you “touched a nerve” and what the “dynamics of the industry and it’s track record” is.
I also dislike the surveillance state and I despise the surveillance corporate fascism even more.
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no worries mate :)
And that’s really sad
It’s also potentially an opportunity. If developers want privacy centric technologies to catch on with the general public, they need to use this psychology to their advantage. Otherwise it will always remain a fringe phenomenon too convoluted and esoteric to compel the average cardi-b nasty ass cooch enthusiast to buy in.