[jMyles]

There is a strange ingredient in the ether right now - confounding privacy with censorship. If I can see something, and hear it, then blurring it is not "privacy", it's censorship.

I fully expected this to be about solutions for empowering the user to ensure that her audio and visual experiences weren't being exfiltrated to a third-party, not that they were being censored before even getting to her.

[Eisenstein]

Can you expound on the difference between privacy and censorship?

[jMyles]

Privacy is the right to wear a veil if you choose.

Censorship is telling everyone else they have to avert their eyes as you walk past.

[Eisenstein]

In all places and situations?

[jMyles]

Yeah, I think that basic distinction applies in some universal way.

Whether or not privacy is proper in a particular situation, or whether censorship is, that's another matter. But it's frustrating to see them confounded in this way.

Crippling the user's device (which is ultimately an affront to freedom of general purpose computing) in order to censor data which is plainly available through sensory input is not, in any sense, "privacy".