“Your kids will grow up in a world with no ‘off the record’,” he writes to any parents reading his post. “Teach them that the best privacy strategy is integrity, living so that being seen costs you nothing. And fight, hard, for a world where the watching goes both ways.”
Celebrities and politicians are simultaneously the most-watched and poorest-behaved people on the planet tho
I think this is called dementia
No it’s sycophancy. He knows what he is saying, it’s an agenda he is pushing. One that benefits the rich. He is either that or thinks he will be looked after by them.
Die in a fire you evil cunt.
TL; DR: Individualize and atomize privacy instead of regulation.
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The problem is there will be tiers of rules. Rich people rules. Other people rules on behaviour….already is.
These types believe autonomy is disruptive to their perfect utopia and the sooner we get on the bandwagon the less they’ll have to punish us for it
Unfortunately we’ve seen a lot of compliance with abhorrent cruelty in the last few years. Autonomy is more than “something”; It’s the only thing standing between a letter and the systemic genocide of an entire demographic.
Doesn’t seem much different from citizens turning on their neighbors under various fascist regimes…
Not better; different. They behave the way the people doing the watching want them to behave. Whether that’s better is purely situational, and that (among others) is why global surveillance is a bad idea.
+1. I think what it does, is enforce conformity. Even without authoritarians, there is still a form of tyranny from group pressure. Ppl become less willing to oppose the majority under total surveilence.
Sometimes, the majority gets things right. Other times, not so much. History is filled with examples. We need room for our MLK Jrs, our Ghandis, our Schindlers, to oppose the norms.
Its a well studied phenomena. When watched, people behave more in the way they think they are expected to behave.
I’m so fucking exhausted
We all know, we’ve been watching.
Okay bud, wire yourself for video and sound and stream it online 24/7 then. Being seen can always cost you something. Doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong. Sometimes what you’re doing is just embarrassing and you’d rather it not be recorded for posterity. People need to start getting their asses beat for voicing shitty opinions like this.
There are things outside morality that are subject to shame and judgement. But also freedom can be defined in the ability to make the choices others would like you not to. Mass surveillance aims to enable punishment of freedom.
And beyond all that, philosophically, there is no virtue without the capacity for vice. Integrity is often described as what you do when nobody’s watching.
Oh and this mass surveillance is already seriously fucking with everyone’s heads. So many people are living increasingly performatively. Between mass surveillance and social media it’s becoming more and more normal to feel this shame and self consciousness that impairs the ability to just live.
Funny how the same standard doesn’t apply to the Epstein class though. Rules for thee, but not for me. Redacted redacted redacted. 🤐
We all know that watching people makes them behave differently, so why does TechCrunch feel the need to remind me of that right now in particular?
Nice try palantir
You children will grow to love the panopticon. They will learn their place and never question it, even in private, because there is no private anymore. They will never have any original thoughts or conversations because those lead to crimes. If you don’t want to commit crimes, then why are you not repeating the norms of the society we have created for you? Clearly you are formenting some criminal plot.
Against the wall citizen!
