So which are you?
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“The Nihilist” all the way.
whatever type doesnt read stupid xckd comics
The Sage. Definitely. Especially if the burrito is really, really good.
what kind of boring loser doesnt have radical domestic extremist opinions and at least a vaguely criminal lifestyle tho its hardly paranoid to not wanna be fully spied on all the time
I used to be scared about things I might’ve said when I was young, but then BM had a forum database crash…
I’m none of the personalities in the comic.
I just want to keep my personal life away from the government, because I don’t trust their systems to be kept out of the hands of corrupt people.
Despite living in a democracy, I’m always worried that something will change and the right to vote will be taken away. Because that has happened elsewhere in the world.
But hey, it’s not like any government agencies are going to use personal information to damage the reputation of “Enemies of the state”, right?
EDIT: Let me clarify. I’ll admit I’m being a bit paranoid, but every time something like this happens, I become terrified that America is slowly, covertly, becoming a police state with no freedoms whatsoever. Where America goes, Canada usually follows.
We’re supposed to be the good guys. We’re supposed to stop this from happening in other countries. But we’re letting it happen to us.
And more than anything else in the world, I dislike the concept of living in a country, or a world, where people have free license to whisk me away to an undisclosed location to brutalize, torture, and/or kill me because my political views are different of those of the “Glorious Leader”.
Losing privacy is the first step to that. So I say we need to fight for it. Because if we don’t make our voices heard, don’t show them we won’t be complacent, pretty soon it’ll be too late to do anything.
And they’ll start coming. Maybe not for you, but for people like me. And if you’ve paid any attention to history, you’ll likely find this quote familiar:
So don’t let them come for anyone - Make them stop before that.
You’re kinda like the Conspiracist, then.
I am a sage/nihilist in this context, don’t care what they have on me, cause all the info on me on the internet is fake info anyway… ok well most of it.
I always assume they already know everything about me and what I do, so that’s why I masturbate a lot.
Pretty much any interaction I have with a computer I sort of just assume someone’s gonna see it at some point. If I wish for something to be private, it usually doesn’t go on the internet because I’m not a total idiot. I know it’s got to go through servers or what have you, meaning it’s not even close to impossible for someone to access the data/info, and so I assume someone will. Anyone who puts any sort of incriminating or otherwise private info on the internet… I don’t even know what lunacy crossed their minds.
As far as the government goes, I highly doubt I will ever type any info into a computer that they don’t already know, or that I haven’t already openly told people.
i am of the strong opinion that internet privacy isn’t about you, it’s about a system which is either free and open or… not
and also that in today’s world, internet privacy is directly connected to real-world privacy
The sage, more or less. I have absolutely no reason to believe anything the NSA is doing will harm me.
Every argument I’ve seen so far is “but the NSA could use it to blackmail you!” or “they might, at some point the future, use it to target political dissidents!”
Yeah, that’s probably not going to happen.
Are you guys dangerous criminals bent on overthrowing the American government? Oh, no?
Then don’t worry about it.
Nihilist. Although I wish I was the exhibitionist.
Sage with a hint of Nihilist.
I do wonder why so many people get their panties in a bunch over this… It’s used to monitor dangerous or suspicious behavior of potential terrorists and other criminals. It’s not used to monitor when you and your family are planning that big party for your grandmother who turns 100 or anything (NSA, spoiling surprise parties since 1952).
And sure, there’s the chance of it falling into the wrong hands, but your info may also fall into the wrong hands when you register for… anything, really.
I wouldn’t mind a constitutional reboot. Start from scratch and figure out what laws are actually needed, as opposed to the ones that are there just because people are butthurt about nothing.
Unfortunately, keeping tabs on bad guys isn’t all it’s been used for.
I’ve always been on the opinion that if you want to tap someone’s lines, gather metadata, and read their mail, you gotta get a warrant from a judge - proving a need to do the surveillance on that individual - but that seems to be very low on government’s lists nowadays, as they keep trying to pass legislation to allow them to do so without, often while trying to camouflage it’s purpose.
^this
Also an orwellian society will turn into a panopticum, where individuality won’t surface as everybody will behave as the norm states you have to behave in order not to seem suspicious.
That’d be e.g. only buy the products you are told to without being allowed to choose, partner with a respective other that would be the norm to you, say and write only what norm allows you to write.
It is happening in some countries and we can see where that leads, isolationism and rearward bound society.
alright, I guess global organized crime doesn’t have an effect on you
I agree with JeffMOD. Just because you don’t have something to hide now, doesn’t mean that it’ll be the same a few years from now. Laws change, and giving a government the means to abuse law enforcement infrastructure kind of scares me. It’s a general trend that the laws themselves are not the first to change, rather, it’s the enforcement of law that changes first in many of the dictatorships we see today.
So I am a combination of the Philosopher, the Cryto Nut, and the Conspiracist.
Also, as for the Constitutional Reboot, who will determine what goes in it? Congress? That’s the very last group that I want…