Privacy is the most important concept of our time
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#2It's important but 'most important of our time'?
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#3privacy is just one outcome of property rights which are so much more important (and compared to privacy, their violation is routinely accepted)
but it's hard to recognize that if you support involuntary redistribution (violation of property rights) as most people here do, so you end up focusing on a relatively minor issues and fail to see the big picture. this also makes it difficult to take you seriously - it's like complaining about pickpockets while condoning armed robbery.
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#4Privacy and the concept of property blur in the digital. This is interesting when taking the philosophy of natural laws and what a nation like USA is built upon (ideas of natural laws including property, defending life, and so on)
Encryption is the only way to have property in the digital universe, however the mechanics of property and cost are also entirely different. Once it exists it’s costless to reproduce in said form. However relying on encryption feels a little repugnant as it relies on transferring trust to a mathematical minority that truly understand it. And no encryption has ever gone unbroken with time. Should there even be a contrived concept of property in the digital universe?
Is there anywhere to learn more of these ideas or consequences in more detail? I’ve had various conversations of this but it would be nice to see a top down review of these ideas and actions in a modern light.
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#5It's important but 'most important of our time'?
This is what happens when you read only technical blogs and books and you spent so much time in front of a computer that the whole of reality seems amenable to some form of online/virtual experience.
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#6It's important but 'most important of our time'?
It's a sign that we live in the best times ever.
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#7No. I'd say there are a few things before.
- notion of time
- distance and space
- experience
- depth of social bonding and cultures
- even magic and mysticism.. (in the days of full and unalterable data with logic processing)
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#8The author goes too far when they suggest there should be laws (and one imagines punishments for those who break them) that prevent something being shared in one space from being shared elsewhere. For example, if I share something with my family, there should be a law that prevents a family member from making what I said public.
Not only would this be a nightmare to police but it would give rise to some anti-social outcomes. If I was flat out telling my family I didn't like race X and wished that religion Y could be outlawed, and then shared in the public realm that racists are terrible and that freedom of religion for all is paramount...shouldn't someone be able to call me out on it? And if not me, imagine a person of some power or influence: don't we want to know when someone's public political stance is different to how they really feel?
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#9> It was not a time of freedom, but anarchy, where bands of barbarians could roam into your lands and pillage everything.
Please, do not use anarchy as a synonym of disorder, violence or war.
Pity a blog post about defining a word and an idea starts with a wrong definition of a word and an idea.
i.e: Anarchy is about self governance, which theoricaly leads to more freedom than whatever we have now in most country.
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#10It's important but 'most important of our time'?
There's a long essay making the argument if you click the link at the top of the page.