[VLM]

Binary thinking. You can ONLY actively consume or actively delete, unthinkable that you can passively not use it.

Its like claiming its impossible for that bottle of whiskey to sit, undrinking, on my basement bar top, whiskey can only either be chugged immediately or angrily poured down the drain. Its impossible that bottle is sitting there without my drinking it.

I assure you, despite your claim that its impossible, I have a mostly full bottle of whiskey on my bar and an unused Facebook account. Why do you believe I'm lying? It seems realistic, reasonable, and a wise course of action.

The other reason deletion is pushed is to provide the illusion of privacy. You have no privacy anymore. Everyone important or actionable has total access to your entire digital life and always has and always will; the government, the banks, the big corporations. Its a false illusion that deleting your cat-meme-sharing account somehow protects you from the credit reporting agencies or the NSA. Its important to provide that false illusion of choice so that people are distracted from the actions of the credit reporting agencies and the NSA and the IRS and the banks and ...

[imwillofficial]

This isn’t binary thinking. It’s clear you don’t understand people who need these extra steps, and thank god for that. This is a problem I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

However, your lack of understanding does not make it any less relevant or useful.

[syshum]

Ironic that you talk about binary thinking then proceed to think of Privacy only in the binary of having it from government or not.

Aside from you being factually wrong on your take (you have massively over stated the competency of government and big finance, their data is more wrong than it is correct)

That however is not the only, and in many cases not even the most important, realm for which one may want to protect their privacy

At this point I am not sure what is more ignorant, your thoughts on addiction or your thoughts on privacy... it is a pretty close race