“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.”
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.
I’m so fucking exhausted
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.
Doesn’t seem much different from citizens turning on their neighbors under various fascist regimes…
If that were the case then people would be so well behaved considering that people post everything to social media nowadays.
Or maybe this psychopathic piece of shit knows HE would behave if he was being monitored again pricing that every accusation is really just a confession?
Maybe, but humans are less likely to socialize and be kind if they know they are being monitored.
Allegedly.
I just seen this too! Insane!
So watch the billionaires then. Watch the Epstein class.
No, they want to watch the proles instead.
Show him videos of people killing people, knowing they’re being filmed.
If he thinks privacy is bad, then he can publish every email, text and message he’s ever sent/received. Then wear a camera around his neck all the time, never taking it off.
I won’t hold my breath on this.
What a dickhole.
Putting aside the practicalities, is a world where everyone’s on their best behavior really better (philosophically speaking). Is autonomy not worth something.
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.
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
The problem is there will be tiers of rules. Rich people rules. Other people rules on behaviour….already is.
Also, they have no way to learn from mistakes because a single mistake as a teen or young adult can mean an entire lifetime of consequences even if little to no harm was done. If you only do things out of fear without knowing the reason they’re bad, then you never learn why your impulses might be bad and eventually you’ll do something with much more severe consequences. This is why many kids raised in strict environments, like religion, stereotypically end up getting into so much trouble later in life. They have no experience with the real consequences, only the extreme, fabricated ones.
+1. Underrated point. We all need the freedom to make mistakes and learn and grow from them.
On top of this, now we can search through someone’s entire life for the worst thing they ever did or said. To use that against them. Maybe they run for political office. Maybe it’s to blackmail them for profit or for espionage. Maybe to get back at htem over a slight.
This is why autocrats and tyrannical governments love surveilence. Because it gives them power over those they surveil.
great, let’s do it with politicians
