Comment by paulcole
20 days ago
> How do meet your own needs and desires if you can't use your own property the way you want?
My needs and desires aren’t that complicated. There’s nothing that I really want or need to do that I can’t do on my phone or iPad.
The logic here seems to be "I don't care about freedom because my jail cell is large enough." What if you wake up one day and it isn't?
Your response reminds me of Snowden's quote, which I'll likely butcher because it's from memory, but roughly: "Saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say".
I'm 45 years old. I've woken up 16,000+ times and it's been fine.
I know what I do on computers/phones/iPads. I know that every computer/phone/iPad I've ever owned has done more or less what I wanted. I'm usually the weak link, not the device.
I don't go to bed worried that the sun is going to rise in the West. I've got things that seem likely to happen to worry about.