Is this the stupidest quote of all time?
If you don't have anything to say, why would you care about free speech? Because it's important that other people can say what they want.
If you apply this logic to the dumb quote, it's basically just saying that you should care about privacy because other people have something to hide.
You're overthinking things again you dumb sperg. Sage
That's a pretty good reason to keep privacy though... I'm not a fucking snitch, so people around me should be allowed to keep whatever (shady) shit they're doing private
>If you don't have anything to say
Then you are dumb.
And Everyone has something , which they might not be ashamed of, but they wouldn't want to go to public.
Got it ?
well if you don't have anything to say why do you have an opinion, and why should anyone else care what it is?
>having something to hide is bad
What's the problem in allowing people to hide whatever they please?
I’ll open up about something that I hope will make anons flocking to this thread a bit more clear on the issue.
In my home I have a junk drawer.
On that drawer I have a lock, and no one is allowed inside of it.
What do I hide in that drawer? Dead bodies? Hard drives full of CP? A gun? Photographs of my exes?
No.
I put birthday cards in there, and credit cards that I don’t use (because you can’t really function without a credit card in this world anymore, even if you solely rely on cash.) I have a small collection of scrap from electronics ranging from phone LED displays and cameras to a lightbulb from a WWII era lamp in there. I have a small hard drive with a backup from 2007 full of video game data from back when I was a kid and was into pc gaming. I also have some gift wrapping I never used, an old waterproof Casio watch that’s been dead for eight years, and an old rusted steel wedding ring. I stored an old die-cast F-16 model in there to remind me of my days in the Air Force.
Why do I have a lock on that drawer? Because that stuff is dangerous? Because there’s something illegal in there?
No.
That drawer is special to me. It’s my junk drawer. It just has things I like and need but don’t use. Even though there’s nothing bad in the drawer, I’m still protective of it and secretive about it.
It’s my private property, and I can guarantee you that most of the anons on this board have a junk drawer of their own storing their own private property. It’s a part of what it is to be human. It isn’t hiding something out of malicious intent, it’s a part of who we are. Rights to private property and freedom of expression are human rights for a reason. Even a soulless or corrupt bureaucrat can understand this concept.
Same should apply to the internet.
I hope this helps some of you. Godspeed and good night.
kill yourself back to Jow Forums
not technology
No. There are surely quotes that are way more stupid than this.
This is fine. But surely it's not the end of the world if law enforcement got a warrant to search your place and wanted it open, right?
Of course not. But they had better have a warrant.
Quite frankly, I don’t see an official federal warrant when my ISP wants all of my data on my computer from every website cookie to where my computer is clear down to what words I say within range of the mic to auction off to advertisers or whoever has enough money and interest. Hell, if the polic force wanted that info and was transparent about it and brought a warrant, I’d say, “By all means, it’s yours.”
Not him, but the state does not and should not have an absolute right to see everything, court order or no. To extend the analogy, suppose I'd buried a box of stuff somewhere, and they wanted to snoop inside it. I don't see why they have any particular right to demand that I tell them where it is, or even if they're correct in their supposition that it exists.
>because other people have something to hide.
Exactly! There's nothing wrong with having something you dont want everyone to know.
Imagine you had zero privacy and were held accountable for every action you made (especially online). You wouldn't be able to say anything controversial.
Even if you only meant the state having mass surveillance then thats still bad. Its impossible to organize dissent from a government that knows everything.
Thanks for this gud post. Seriously based & redpilled
Why do you assume everything that needs hiding is bad? Just because the government or some corporation doesn't like it doesn't necessarily make it bad.
If you don't have anything to say, why did you say this?
Watch edtv to see why privacy is a basic human rights, it's a good movie.
>freetard reading comprehension
OP is retarded. This quote is more relevant now than ever. Conservative opinions are literally not allowed anymore (fuck my marxist university). And free speech and debate is needed more than ever. Just like privacy is needed now more than ever, as major tech companies run rampant with their massive, personal data raping cocks, fuck us all in the arse to guide western society to a cesspool of degenerate retards, incapable of free thought, and ignorant to the freedom that was taken from us. All just to make a few extra shekels.
> inb4 go back to Jow Forums
Shtftfukhkup
Nothing to hide nothing to fear.
what can we do to combat corporate control and violation of our privacy?
and its not only conservative, anything that goes against globalist corporate views is suppressed
It would be better if instead of watching ordinary citizens they used their own resources to monitor actual bad people/groups.
I realize that the power of controlling the masses is far more tempting than it is to create a safe, and civil society.
We have gone too far down the Orwellian path to fix this all easily now, the future will be far worse.
>a study was needed to realize this
>what can we do to combat corporate control and violation of our privacy?
We support corporations and organizations that respect our privacy instead, duh.
>I can't, I live in USA
Then move.
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No, people legitimately think that Alex Jones was good to ban... Look at what fucking Google shoves down our throats each day... There is no escape, they have showed up in my city, and immediately began pushing an end to the "anti-poor 55 foot height limit" in order to have taller codeslave factories built, replacing blocks upon blocks of 50+ year old buildings...
There's not a single socialist country in Europe. Social democrats have never tried to hide the fact that they're capitalists. That is and has always been the whole point of social democracy.
lingering elements of a socialist past in europeans countries actually work by themselves just fine and were designed as such
that's also, you know, sort of the issue nowadays
Reminder that Jow Forums supports free speech and is thankful for what snowden did, the board is just divided on how he handled it.
I'd say that board is neither united or divided and just one big mess that will never make sense of itself.
They sell their finds to CIA so everyone who would seriously stop them (with competition or new laws) will die from accidental lead poisoning.
no hiding. just trust the state goy
intelligence of Jow Forums
I have nothing to say and I don't care about free speech at all, in fact I strongly believe that people should not be able to communicate on the Internet
this man gets it
I wish for government to force ideas and opinions on us, because government knows better
anyone who disagrees with government should be put in jail and/or castrated.