Privacy is Power

You guys need to learn what a meme is.

A meme is a thing thats shared, so this becomes a meme when it’s posted to share with others.

The hell do YOU think a meme is?
- The hell do YOU think a meme is?
  
  This, and exclusively this:
  
  (I do not personally agree)
- A continuously adapted and shaped image, text or video that gets shared relentlessly.
  
  If something keeps getting shared unchanged, I wouldn't actually consider it a meme, only if it's altered. Otherwise I would just call it a viral post or video or something.
  
  Actually, it's pretty hard to define a meme now that I try to think about it...
Why?
- I think they were referring to this community being called microblog memes and this post kinda not being a meme per se
Memes and jokes should have a basis in reality or they'll get shit on for being dumb. I know what a meme is. This was shit 🤷‍♂️

If I post shitty right wing memes do I get a free pass or does it end up in the right can't meme?
- Do you think people wanting privacy is somehow a political stance? Even more so, a... leftist political stance?
  
  Do tories not mind being spied on by their everything providers? xD

"I want convenience and I have nothing to hide, so I'm willing to give my data away."

Ok, but other people aren't.

Your vote affects other people.

It's great that your needs are met but people other than you will be hurt by this.

Meh. Pseudo-wisdom.

The wealthy rule with or without your information. They did just fine before the advent of scraping every data point about you off the internet, your phone, or card swipe. Your info today is just another datapoint in some company’s portfolio to be bought and sold.

Authoritarian governments get that way to protect wealth and power. It’s not your personal information that matters as much as what you say that matters. If you cannot be safe in expressing dissent and keep that private, then you’ve lost.

Information is an obscenely valuable resource and information asymmetry decides wars.
- Yeah, tactical information. Locations of troops, resources, roads, bridges, opposition location, etc etc.
  
  Not what I bought at the store.
  
  Let’s not conflate the two.

I have nothing to hide: takes lock off front door, removes pin from phone, tells everyone who asks pin to debit card, accepts all cookies automatically, fills out invasive surveys for vouchers.

If you give your data to companies, they'll sell it to the government, circumventing legal processes that are supposed to protect against warrantless spying.

I was having a parking dispute with my apartment manager where I was borrowing a vehicle while mine was in the shop. She sent a warning letter to not park it there. After unsuccessfully trying to state my case, I asked to speak to the owners for their understanding. She said absolutely not and refused to give me any information about them. I decided to do some online research with her name and company to find out the owner's identity but was only able to find her arrest history instead, I even found her date of birth and address. It turns out she was arrested three times for drunk driving and being under the influence of other narcotics with the last time happening just months before.

I can find some dirt that could potentially be used to blackmail my manager but couldn't find a single piece of information about the owners of a large apartment complex. Privacy is indeed power.