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by mindslight 21 days ago
> There's nothing unproductive in calling out denying responsibility/culpability. Some would say it's practically mandatory.

I've been condemning the surveillance industry going on two decades now. Making that condemnation personal has felt pretty unproductive to me. Maybe there is now enough of a critical mass of people seeing the problems that personal condemnation might help move the needle these days, but many years of this not being true is still the perspective I am coming from.