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Why do you care about privacy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by fart_pickle@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm following several privacy focused communities. Mostly as lurker but in few I'm more active. Every time I see a posts like "how to be more private", I wonder about the reasons behind those questions. What's the reason you want to remain private (don't confuse it with being anonymous)? Could you elaborate on your reasons?

Let me start.

I worked (and still working) in a highly regulated industry as a software/devops engineer. I've been working with banks, insurance companies, global online payment companies, major credit card vendors, few global corporations. I have seen how data is gathered and (mis)used. Every time someone tells me "I'm sorry but the system..." I know it's the data gathered by the "system" and my profile created based on that data was the reason for "but". This is why I care about the privacy, to prevent companies from taking advantage of my current situation and charge me more.

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Example: Terry Crews speaking out about his own experiences with sexual assault. Also him calling for black men to step up and be father figures in communities lacking them.

You can argue that he wasn't truly "cancelled", but he drew a lot or fire for those. People claiming that he was somehow taking away from womens' experiences by speaking about his own, and people saying that his statements about a lack of father figures in the African American community was racist.

It's not just white people wanting excuses to be racist. Just mostly that.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So he wasn't cancelled. Some people were critical of how he said some things. That's the way people work.

I could post "the best spaghetti sauce recipe" and I would get people telling me I'm an idiot and wrong about Italian culture and blah blah blah. That's not cancellation. Any opinion, no matter how benign, gets crap on the internet.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, as I already addressed. But it's important to understand the way the other side frames this shit, and they absolutely framed it as attempts to cancel him.

They asked for an example of "cancel culture" and I gave one of the few these people cite that isn't absolutely batshit or racist.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago

So most people being allegedly cancelled are batshit or racist? ... Why is cancelling bad then?

There's few cases of non batshit, non racist ppl being cancelled. The best example you could think of, you acknowledge wasn't actually cancelling.

I'm not getting it.