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by sylos 210 days ago
So basically you're saying we're fucked. People don't care about FOSS in general, let alone when their phone says it's dangerous.
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If peopele cared about privacy as much as politics pretends they do, we'd have solved so many problems in society.

Fortunately, those fighting, albeit a minority, have done great work in protecting this. No reason to stop now.

Yeah we are fucked, but as long as a small percentage of us, like 1% of the population knows, understands and agrees with the idea I think we are fine.
We'll have to initiate solid self defense protocol though. I think the first thing we should do is get a new logical fallacy term officially coined.

Stallman/StallManned Abusing the principles of the Slippery Slope to discredit perfectly rational predictions