Politicians don't vote the way you want. Therefore they must be corrupt...
Majority of Americans don't care. Fix that problem first and the election system will fix the problem. Start calling out individual senators and representatives too.
Not saying you can't have privacy in your own devices/papers. Just that the essence of privacy is the protection of your own devices and documents. Handing information over to a third party and claiming the right to prevent them from talking about it is the antithesis of free speech.
The problem with privacy is that it is as a concept somewhat incompatible with free speech. You cannot both have a right to prevent someone from talking about you and them also have a right to speak about you. Privacy and free speech are opposing rights, you have to pick one. Our constitution picked free speech.
There is some limited room for privacy in a free speech world when it comes to our own devices. For example, we can make it illegal to distribute apps that secretly spy on you. But if consent is involved and information freely shared thereafter, any "privacy right" becomes a speech restriction. Should that stand? I think not. GDPR is used to remove court cases from the internet. I think we shouldn't have such things able to be buried by "privacy" if we want to keep citizens well informed. The right to privacy is the antithesis to an informed society.
The problem with privacy is that it is as a concept somewhat incompatible with free speech. You cannot both have a right to prevent someone from talking about you and them also have a right to speak about you. Privacy and free speech are opposing rights, you have to pick one. Our constitution picked free speech.
There is some limited room for privacy in a free speech world when it comes to our own devices. For example, we can make it illegal to distribute apps that secretly spy on you. But if consent is involved and information freely shared thereafter, any "privacy right" becomes a speech restriction. Should that stand? I think not. GDPR is used to remove court cases from the internet. I think we shouldn't have such things able to be buried by "privacy" if we want to keep citizens well informed. The right to privacy is the antithesis to an informed society.
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Politicians don't vote the way you want. Therefore they must be corrupt...
Majority of Americans don't care. Fix that problem first and the election system will fix the problem. Start calling out individual senators and representatives too.
Re: The problem with "privacy"
Not saying you can't have privacy in your own devices/papers. Just that the essence of privacy is the protection of your own devices and documents. Handing information over to a third party and claiming the right to prevent them from talking about it is the antithesis of free speech.
The problem with "privacy"
The problem with privacy is that it is as a concept somewhat incompatible with free speech. You cannot both have a right to prevent someone from talking about you and them also have a right to speak about you. Privacy and free speech are opposing rights, you have to pick one. Our constitution picked free speech. There is some limited room for privacy in a free speech world when it comes to our own devices. For example, we can make it illegal to distribute apps that secretly spy on you. But if consent is involved and information freely shared thereafter, any "privacy right" becomes a speech restriction. Should that stand? I think not. GDPR is used to remove court cases from the internet. I think we shouldn't have such things able to be buried by "privacy" if we want to keep citizens well informed. The right to privacy is the antithesis to an informed society.
The problem with "privacy"
The problem with privacy is that it is as a concept somewhat incompatible with free speech. You cannot both have a right to prevent someone from talking about you and them also have a right to speak about you. Privacy and free speech are opposing rights, you have to pick one. Our constitution picked free speech. There is some limited room for privacy in a free speech world when it comes to our own devices. For example, we can make it illegal to distribute apps that secretly spy on you. But if consent is involved and information freely shared thereafter, any "privacy right" becomes a speech restriction. Should that stand? I think not. GDPR is used to remove court cases from the internet. I think we shouldn't have such things able to be buried by "privacy" if we want to keep citizens well informed. The right to privacy is the antithesis to an informed society.