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The best explination I've ever seen of why the argument against online privacy is stupid:
6 Jul 2022 at 14:29 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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Buntbart
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@oausi
Finkel - Funk 27 hours ago (edited)
Justifying privacy is like trying to justify any other human right. They are called rights, not because you need to justify them, but because we came to a consensus that they are integral parts of

a working society. The right to privacy is like the right to not being harmed, your right to free speech or right to freedom. All of these are nothing you need to justify in order to acquire them, you

innately have them, period. You may chose not to use them, but you can never use that as grounds to deny them to others
The answer ‘because I have a right to privacy’ is enough to satisfyingly answer the "I have nothing to hide" paradigm, no justification needed for making use of basic human rights.

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@oausi
Finkel - Funk 27 hours ago (edited)
Justifying privacy is like trying to justify any other human right. They are called rights, not because you need to justify them, but because we came to a consensus that they are integral parts of

a working society. The right to privacy is like the right to not being harmed, your right to free speech or right to freedom. All of these are nothing you need to justify in order to acquire them, you

5 Aug 2022 at 5:34 | Reply | Open on fedi.lynnesbian.space
grey@fosstodon:~ $ :idle:

@Linux_in_a_Bit a wise man who has lived to tell the tale

5 Aug 2022 at 15:57 | Reply | Open on fosstodon.org
lions & tamsyn & bears, oh my!

transcript for ease of cut'n'pasting:

> Justifying privacy is like trying to justify any other human right. They are called rights, not because you need to justify them, but because we came to a consensus that they are integral parts of a working society. The right to privacy is like the right to not being harmed, your right to free speech or right to freedom. All of these are nothing you need to justify in order to acquire them, you innately have them, period. You may chose not to use them, but you can never use that as grounds to deny them to others.

> The answer "because I have a right to privacy" is enough to satisfyingly answer the "I have nothing to hide" paradigm, no justification needed for making use of basic human rights.

transcript for ease of cut'n'pasting:

> Justifying privacy is like trying to justify any other human right. They are called rights, not because you need to justify them, but because we came to a consensus that they are integral parts of a working society. The right to privacy is like the right to not being harmed, your right to free speech or right to freedom. All of these are nothing you need to justify in order to acquire them, you innately have them, period. You may chose not to use them, but...

5 Aug 2022 at 16:44 | Reply | Open on dragon.style
sankakujin
@Linux_in_a_Bit Misread it as piracy at first. A basic human right.
5 Aug 2022 at 17:50 | Reply | Open on social.ppmx.org
Hyolobrika's fun alt
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@Linux_in_a_Bit sounds like dangerous terrorist misinformation to me.

9 Aug 2022 at 13:10 | Reply | Open on qoto.org
Léo

@Linux_in_a_Bit I disagree, you don't have rights innately, they are the results of power struggles of human History. And this is not a consensus, this is a majority phenomenon in some places on earth, that was not something that went without saying for everyone in the first place, and it can disappear real quick if people stop considering it worthy. Rights don't exist naturally, you have to conquer them all the time.

10 Aug 2022 at 7:43 | Reply | Open on social.synergetic-design.com
Linux in a Bit 🐧

@leo
It's not that you innately have them, it's that you don't have to justify having them. There's a small, but important, difference there.

11 Aug 2022 at 22:27 | Reply | Open on linuxrocks.online
Léo

@Linux_in_a_Bit > All of these are nothing you need to justify in order to acquire them, you innately have them, period.

This is written as it is in the text.

12 Aug 2022 at 9:20 | Reply | Open on social.synergetic-design.com
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