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  • Fontasia@feddit.nltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldPrivacy is Power
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    19 days ago

    It’s what decisions are made with that data that’s the concern. A lot of “privacy advocates” believe that society can exist with the government not knowing anything about their population. I can’t think how:

    • a transport service can operate without knowing where people go and when
    • consumer advocacy can work without knowing what people will buy
    • what needs to be addressed in society without knowing what the issues are
    • what to educate people on unless you find out what they don’t know
    • a health service can adapt to the needs of aging populations without good fertility data

    You’re right, all this data can be used against someone for malicious reasons and like in the China example it’s easier to locate dissonance by listening. But evil can be done without data collection, it’s impossible to do good without it.








  • So the working class had to be specifically told

    • the democrats support unions
    • the democrats support breaking up monopolies
    • the cost of living is a complex issue with multiple causes that will take a very careful and calculated collection of regulations regarding home ownership, rent, taxes, and it’s not going to work for everyone, and it’s not going to happen overnight
    • supporting and expanding social welfare programs helps everyone

    What are they expecting? The Republicans will be able to write a law saying Netflix will be cheaper and have no ads?










  • Now you’re not going to believe this, ladies and gentlemen, there was a time - not too longer ago in fact - where people called these metacrawlers, and they were beloved. People would say “Dogpile” yes, that might help, because - bare with me again - search was shit. But, comparing lot of different shit sources would generally give you ok information, and generally reveal at least a lot of different sources which could help find and gather information.

    Now I’m not calling Kagi reputable in anyway, but if metacrawling helped with the situation before, maybe we should try it again.