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by Eumenes 1107 days ago
Yes, people have always been distracted and overwhelmed. Nothing new there. Ask your casual citizen then. People are unwilling to take the simple steps of removing spyware from their phone or daily life. That is lazy. Its also the first step. If everyday people just dumped these apps and web services, CIA/Mossad's of the world would have a very limited vector, and having been spoiled with direct links into everything for 20 years, would probably be clueless. People need to take responsibility for their own privacy and data security.
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omniglottal 1107 days ago
"Simple steps..."?! Lazy?? Yeah, all credibility was lost there. People, by and large, feel powerless - apathy comes from absence of agency as a coping mechanism. It's a 2-party system where one is the nanny-state authoritarians and the other more fascist authoritarian. Both surveil. Both engage in secrecy and subterfuge, and none have called for open governance, campaign finance reform, or anything that would take money out of our representatives' greedy, deep pockets.

People know this. The wall they all hit: "What can I do about it?" I've been doing those things all my life, since before the WWW existed, and became a professional in the industry being leveraged for surveillance and control.

It's hard. It's better we don't lie about why.

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Eumenes 1107 days ago
Corporations are bad, politicians are bad, yes. But if you can't even be bothered to delete social media and predatory apps/services that pimp your data out to the government, you are in fact lazy. Deleting your accounts is simple. Only a few clicks through the settings. Idk where this cope came from where its literally impossible to detach from it. These companies are never going to play by our rules, so I think we can stop pretending they will.

If you're worried about your career, just keep your linkedin profile barebones. If you require a fb, twitter, snapchat, tiktok, etc to maintain a professional career, you prob don't care about privacy in the first place, because you're in marketing or social media, or trying to be an influencer.

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