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by red_hairing 3333 days ago
it's really sad how young online political activists have adopted privacy issues instead of adopting issues like workers rights, vacation time, pay, a strong welfare state, universal healthcare etc...
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Generally they have adopted a lot of those, but privacy is kind of our specialisation as tech people. Often we see it as a necessary prerequisite to the others. Especially worker's rights: mass surveillance is used against worker organisation.

Dismissing people focusing on "X" instead of "Y" is useless and disruptive.

The struggle for privacy and for workers rights, vacation time etc. can coexist, I don't see anything wrong in that.
Why would he be capable of only addressing one issue at a time? If I fight against racial discrimination, for example, why does that mean I'm not also battling for workers' rights?
The guy who wrote this is Italian... maybe he's satisfied with the state of many of these things in Italy.