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"We Should All Have Something to Hide" by Moxie moxie.org/blog/we-should…
Everyone should read this. Recently sent to me by a friend. Some knowledge bombs on privacy, freedom, and technology 👇
Everyone should read this. Recently sent to me by a friend. Some knowledge bombs on privacy, freedom, and technology 👇
Supreme Court Justic Stephen Bryer: The complexity of modern federal criminal law...make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just when a particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation.
"You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet."
"What’s often overlooked, however, is that these legal victories would probably not have been possible without the ability to break the law."
"Imagine if there were an alternate dystopian reality where law enforcement was 100% effective...How could states decide that same sex marriage should be permitted, if nobody had ever seen or participated in a same sex relationship?"
"The world we live in influences not just what we think, but how we think, in a way that a discourse about other ideas isn’t able to."
It is our present experience of what we are and are not able to do that largely determines our sense for what is possible. This is why same sex relationships, in violation of sodomy laws, were a necessary precondition for the legalization of same sex marriage.
"[we are] also substantially closer to that dystopian reality of a world where law enforcement is 100% effective, eliminating the possibility to experience alternative ideas that might better suit us."
"So don’t just vote or petition.
To the extent that we’re 'from the internet,' we have a certain amount of power of our own that we can leverage within this domain."
To the extent that we’re 'from the internet,' we have a certain amount of power of our own that we can leverage within this domain."
