Why? Generally speaking, are the chances that online services report users to authorities for posting illegal content relatively high?
it’s not about what they are doing, although many do really shady or outright illegal stuff, but what they could do if they wanted.
Post your SSN/SIN, Full name and address and birthday parents full names and addresses and your bank account numbers and any other personal Information you can think of and come back here in a month to see how privacy matters.
(Dont actually do this )
SSN 4815162342
Joe No Malarky
1600 Pensylvania Avenue, Washington DC
Bank: Bitch I am the Bank (until January 20)
Read up about data brokers. The information companies mine and sell about everyone for profit is pretty gross. Privacy should be a human right.
My human,
Why should those through whom we speak or communicate also the managers and enforcers of said speech?
As we’ve seen with Reddit and others, your content and history are already cataloged. Are you sure the thing you say today won’t be used against you tomorrow?
There are already mechanisms to deal with illegal activity online.
Privacy to live one’s life and express one’s opinions without fear of retaliation, reprisal, or identification is one of, if not the most important things we have as individual citizens. Do not ever, ever, ever give it up without a fight.
If nothing else, because corporations use it incredibly effectively to tailor behavior manipulation to you personally.
