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Especially financial privacy, which many supposed supporters of privacy are always very quiet about. It’s unfortunate to hear the patriot act style talking points people use to justify KYC laws and transaction tracking.
Especially financial privacy, which many supposed supporters of privacy are always very quiet about. It’s unfortunate to hear the patriot act style talking points people use to justify KYC laws and transaction tracking.
Taking financial privacy to the extreme is how you get failed states.
Concern yourself less with the money of others. Spying on my wallet is not a basic human right.
Everytime I read threads like this I get very concerned. It's like, even here, people don't understand the core problem. Or are intentionally trying to shift the blame away from big tech. Of course the state spies on you. After Edward Snowden everyone should know that. And thats a big problem because the state is the one actor that should fight to protect you from surveillance. But let's not claim that big tech is no…
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Taking financial privacy to the extreme is how you get failed states.
Is Switzerland a failed state? Concern yourself less with the money of others. Spying on my wallet is not a basic human right.
What about Ukraine? Yanukovich looted his country and lived in a palace with an exotic zoo and bathrooms that had TVs at sitting-on-the-toilet height so that he wouldn't miss his shows while he dealt with his constipation problems.
Or in Angola, where a minister's daughter came to NYC and starred on Say Yes to the Dress, and in fact said yes to about a dozen dresses, just for herself, for just her wedding, each in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, even though 66% of Angolans are impoverished? The minister salaries don't cover such costs.
Do you consider kleptocracy to be the natural and right state of the world? (never mind, I skimmed previous comments of yours - "libertarian", reagan-worshipping, hyper-conservative. You won't answer 'yes', but you will ask 'if that's how the world works then what's wrong with it?')
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Is Switzerland a failed state? Concern yourself less with the money of others. Spying on my wallet is not a basic human right.
I mean it is interesting that you picked the most "respectable" option as a counter, so how about a more regular example. What about Ukraine? Yanukovich looted his country and lived in a palace with an exotic zoo and bathrooms that had TVs at sitting-on-the-toilet height so that he wouldn't miss his shows while he dealt with his constipation problems. Or in Angola, where a minister's daughter came to NYC and starred…
Feel free to move to one of the “regular” examples of financial surveillance states such as Cuba or Venezuela, I will never object to collectivists looting from each other. I just ask that you leave others out of it.
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I think this is starting, but I'm not sure it has been internalized. People still frequently quote Goebbels and saying "my data isn't useful." I think one key change that is happening now is that our data and decisions have really changed. For example, with the advent of LLMs I've thought of not just deleting accounts (despite being semi-anonymous) but purging them, so that my data cannot be used for future training.…
> I think this is starting, but I'm not sure it has been internalized. Good point. But I see people doing a whole lot more self-censoring these days without even realizing they're doing it, too. > with the advent of LLMs I've thought of not just deleting accounts (despite being semi-anonymous) but purging them, so that my data cannot be used for future training I have removed my websites from the public web for exact…