What's been bothering me about Facebook's pivot to "privacy" in particular is that one company is again making policy that affects BILLIONS of people in very different circumstances, despite a track record of lies and misguided leadership, with no accountability to those affected
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There's got to be a better way than a tug-of-war between Bill Barr and Mark Zuckerberg deciding the way rumor networks are going to work in rural India. The lack of accountability and insularity of the debate make me uneasy.
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The thing that bugs me in particular is that surveillance-proof spaces (like bug-free, end-to-end encrypted chat apps) are different from surveillance-free spaces in some important way that I find it hard to articulate. I'm strongly in favor of the latter over the former
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Human rights are not “American cultural values”
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The beginning of modern human rights discourse is very tied into the Cold War.
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Ok fine. Express it otherwise.
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That's the hard part
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Go talk to an American librarian. They were/are incredibly protective of their borrowers because they believed that anyone should be able to read or write anything without fear of reprisal.
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My girlfriend is an American librarian and has taught me a lot about the enviable code of ethics in her field
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"Privacy" feel like a very American way to look at it - different cultures place a different value on privacy. Would you buy... Safety is a human right and encryption helps keep people safe.
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Encryption can also put people in danger. It's not as simple as choosing a better word.
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