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Friday, December 27, 2013
This Political Cartoon From 20 Years Ago Was Disturbingly Prescient
I was talking to a guy at work and he trotted out the old "I got nothing to hide" saw concerning government surveillance. I just said, "you've got nothing to hide, yet."
Rikalonius, security is in no way contingent upon dismantling our right to privacy; the argument that you've got nothing to hide is a false dichotomy presented in order to make people feel uneasy or guilty about their privacy rights. What you do is your business, not the government's nor anyone else's. The same holds true for private property and private business. To allow the government to invade our privacy is to enable communism.
I think I may not have articulated my point well, what I was trying to tell my co-worker, who believe government intrusion of privacy is okay because he has nothing to hide, was what the cartoon was indicating, he is enabling an apparatus that eventually will discover that he is hiding something, and then it will be too late for him to protest.
Sounds like your co-worker subscribes to the 'collective' mindset put forth by the mainstream. The only way they can succeed in implementing socialism (or communism by extension) is if the people conform, which I'll never do.
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Is that really from 20 years ago? If so its accuracy is nothing short of breathtaking.
I was talking to a guy at work and he trotted out the old "I got nothing to hide" saw concerning government surveillance. I just said, "you've got nothing to hide, yet."
Rikalonius, security is in no way contingent upon dismantling our right to privacy; the argument that you've got nothing to hide is a false dichotomy presented in order to make people feel uneasy or guilty about their privacy rights. What you do is your business, not the government's nor anyone else's. The same holds true for private property and private business. To allow the government to invade our privacy is to enable communism.
I think I may not have articulated my point well, what I was trying to tell my co-worker, who believe government intrusion of privacy is okay because he has nothing to hide, was what the cartoon was indicating, he is enabling an apparatus that eventually will discover that he is hiding something, and then it will be too late for him to protest.
Sounds like your co-worker subscribes to the 'collective' mindset put forth by the mainstream. The only way they can succeed in implementing socialism (or communism by extension) is if the people conform, which I'll never do.
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