Well the point was to call out that offensive fallacy, not to berate your own views. To be honest though, I feel like you are the guy referred to in the top post, in every thread on (what I and many others, including the EFF consider) real privacy and civil liberties issues.
I also don't understand why you keep using "they can already do this" as an argument against those who are opposed to these issues. The fact that many people are unknowingly already equipped with EDRs is completely irrelevant. Or that companies already share breach data. Your logic is such that if X is already doing Y, being opposed to X is an invalid position. What?
I don't think you can call anything a tinfoil hat concern without understanding every individual's reasons for being opposed to something.
I don't want someone logging everything I do and everywhere I go, and not being in control of that data (yes I own a cell phone; see previous). Why? The same reason many people want the right to own a gun.[1] "Because fuck you, that's why." The fact that I have nothing to hide, to me, is all the more reason I deserve to be left alone.
[1] I personally don't actually believe society is better off with guns. I think the "protection" argument is equivalent to what tinfoil hats say. But it doesn't matter what I think. That's what it means to be a civil libertarian. I don't care what your voter registration says or who you donate to, if you don't understand this, you are not a civil libertarian.
"Hacker News comment threads: where people apply 'works on my machine' to social problems."
It would have been helpful if you had read the legislation we're commenting on before forming an opinion about me based on my position on that legislation.
I also don't understand why you keep using "they can already do this" as an argument against those who are opposed to these issues. The fact that many people are unknowingly already equipped with EDRs is completely irrelevant. Or that companies already share breach data. Your logic is such that if X is already doing Y, being opposed to X is an invalid position. What?
I don't think you can call anything a tinfoil hat concern without understanding every individual's reasons for being opposed to something.
I don't want someone logging everything I do and everywhere I go, and not being in control of that data (yes I own a cell phone; see previous). Why? The same reason many people want the right to own a gun.[1] "Because fuck you, that's why." The fact that I have nothing to hide, to me, is all the more reason I deserve to be left alone.
[1] I personally don't actually believe society is better off with guns. I think the "protection" argument is equivalent to what tinfoil hats say. But it doesn't matter what I think. That's what it means to be a civil libertarian. I don't care what your voter registration says or who you donate to, if you don't understand this, you are not a civil libertarian.
"Hacker News comment threads: where people apply 'works on my machine' to social problems."
https://twitter.com/#!/jcoglan/status/192408075917983744