Comment by 827a
1 year ago
Its incredible to me how seriously people can hold an opinion they've so clearly critically interrogated so little.
1 year ago
Its incredible to me how seriously people can hold an opinion they've so clearly critically interrogated so little.
It makes sense when you see it as indoctrination than a mere opinion. Quashing critical thinking is the point. How else can you convince people to work against their own interests?
I put it to you - consider that you maybe wrong. That I indeed know what's best for me. The same way my default is that you know what's best for you. "Critical thinking" and "indoctrination" - you are on path to the dark side there. I grew up in a socialist/communist country. One of the ways in which vast majority of the population were oppressed, mis-treated etc or worse, was by them being denied agency and capability for critical thinking, for recognising their own interests, by a mechanism called "false consciousness". The ideas you expressed in your comment are of similar kind.
Says the person advocating for companies to get rid of consent, the bare minimum they can do when screwing over people for profit. That's not deciding what's best for you. That's you unilaterally deciding that no one deserves consumer protection. You are trying to force on everyone what 96% of people are opposed to [1]. So don't you dare pull off that DARVO nonsense and accuse me of being an oppressive dictator.
Also in what universe are utter fantasies like "'no one wants to share their data' is just assumed" or "the defaults are always 'deny everything'" true? Tech companies are bypassing user consent all [2] the [3] time [4].
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/96-of-us-users-opt-o...
[2]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=opt%20out
[3]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=opt%20in
[4]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=consent
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