• LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz
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    28 days ago

    mass surveillance isn’t a problem for regular joes

    OK, why don’t you post your email and password here. While your at it, how bout your icloud or google storage accounts (or similar). You have nothing to hide, right? It shouldn’t be an issue for the masses here to surveil your accounts for you. You know, just to make sure your not doing anything shady.

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      27 days ago

      Why treat the public and the government as identical? The government operates under professional standards and official accountability. It’s like saying that because I trust a doctor to perform surgery, I should let anyone cut into my body

      I get what you’re trying to do, you’re trying to show how uncomfortable it feels to lose privacy. But here’s see it: the masses can’t be held accountable if someone misuses your data. How would you even track down who abused the information once everyone has access to it?

      Plus, being forced to hand over your personal life alone while everyone else stays hidden isn’t the same as a universal system where everyone operates under the exact same standard rules.

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        27 days ago

        Hey heres the fun thing about your argument that they will be more responsible than the public. Flock and Axxon and all the rest of those companies that you hold so much trust in…they arent the government. They aren’t even regulated by the government. They are a private company with people just like you and me working there, with unfettered access to your data. They have no accountability and no oversight. They are a FOR PROFIT business that will do anything they can to MAKE PROFIT. But you keep licking that boot there.

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          27 days ago

          I don’t think any business can be completely unregulated. Does that change the fact that private companies still have to operate under professional standards and official accountability? Plus, saying people who work for a private company are ‘just like you and me’ (implying they act like the general masses) is a stretch. People who work in government are also just regular human beings. Since private companies are in it for profit, isn’t it in their best interest to avoid shady practices? Doing illegal things would simply destroy their own business

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              27 days ago

              So every time someone has a different perspective than you, you just dismiss them as an AI script? Might be time to open your mind a little bit.