[rossjudson]

The ratio of "people who have opinions about what google/meta/etc might be doing" vs "people who have actually worked privacy/security in google/meta/etc" is abysmally low.

Most of what's said by people who actually known what they're talking about is drowned out by low-effort, conspiratorial, semi-intellectual laziness.

[xvector]

Yeah, this is the main reason I stopped using Reddit when I entered the industry.

Taking it a step further - I frankly don't think normal people are positioned to make any decisions or hold any opinions strongly about tech. They are so mislead by journalism it's not even funny.

My doctor friends feel similarly about medicine and how it's reported on (and the populace's common opinions on medicine.) The average person/voter is immensely mislead in basically every field they themselves are not an expert in.