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by staunch 3399 days ago
I used to worry about being "on a list" and then realized I wasn't okay with worrying about while considering myself a free person.

Every time I wonder if I might get in trouble for reading, clicking, or watching something I make sure to do it.

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That is a great attitude, and it not only helps you (by being more knowledgeable and less worried about hypotheticals), but also the rest of us by reducing effectiveness on the profiling of those who read certain things - the same way that being a normal person that uses tor reduces the "use tor"="pedophile" fallacy (and substitute tor by end2end encryption, torrents, decentralised communication, or what have you).

So thank you!

Exactly! You can't give in to even the idea of restricting knowledge.
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world." - Louis Pasteur