Comment by johnnyanmac
2 days ago
I wonder if this will shift over the next decade as Millenials start to become the voting bloc to appeal to, a generation that grew up with the internet (or at worst, started picking up the internet late in college/early in the workforce)?
Among other factors, boomers grew up in a time where it wasn't unusual to announce your home address during a televised interview. Their ideas of privacy and locality is so fundamentally different from a generation that was the test bed for factors like cyberbullying, doxxing, mass trolling/harassment for users all around the world.
And you know, spending your 30's/40's seeing blatant government overreach to harrass minorities and political opponents will help. Doubly so for Gen Z seeing this in their early adult years.
No, probably not. For as many Z's that care about privacy there seems to be 4 more that post their lives online.
So, 20%? Those are actually prerty good odds for a national topic.
But yeah, nothing is certain about this stuff per se.. Maybe all this blatant corruption wakes some of the not old blocs up. Maybe it's swept under the rug yet again if comfort and relief returns.