Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Remember when they were calling for regime change in China because of mass surveillance? This is the USA today (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 days ago by iByteABit@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

You can chip away at power structures and resist them. You still lose but leave them weakened and more vulnerable to the next to challenge them. Eventually they fall.

If you comply instead, you strengthen the power structures that do harm anyway.

The only rational move is to resist.