[chii]

Action speaks louder than words. It doesn't matter what people say they prefer, their actions reveal a true preference.

[noosphr]

Funny how we stopped drinking lead when they stopped putting lead in our water.

[mcsniff]

If you want to absolve yourself of personal responsibility, go ahead and blame "them" and "we".

You were free to drink lead-free water the entire time, you just didn't care enough to do so.

[noosphr]

We also stopped breathing fall out when they stopped doing atmospheric nuclear tests.

If only those lazy 1950s layabouts carries oxygen tanks instead of complaining about cancers.

[applfanboysbgon]

This is just idiotic to say. Nobody actually prefers to have their data siphoned off, in the abstract. If you make it a choice between "privacy" and "being able to participate in society in any way at all", obviously they're going to pick the latter. That's not a "revealed preference", that's coercion. It doesn't actually have to be that way. We can have a world where we have smartphones, and the government can't use those smartphones to track your location at all times.

[plagiarist]

Let me know how I can participate in society without a cellphone, credit cards, sharing an ID with businesses, showing my face to ubiquitous cameras, whatever else. I'll do it. Tell me how.