“Your kids will grow up in a world with no ‘off the record’,” he writes to any parents reading his post. “Teach them that the best privacy strategy is integrity, living so that being seen costs you nothing. And fight, hard, for a world where the watching goes both ways.”
Celebrities and politicians are simultaneously the most-watched and poorest-behaved people on the planet tho
Not better; different. They behave the way the people doing the watching want them to behave. Whether that’s better is purely situational, and that (among others) is why global surveillance is a bad idea.
Funny how the same standard doesn’t apply to the Epstein class though. Rules for thee, but not for me. Redacted redacted redacted. 🤐
I’m so fucking exhausted
Putting aside the practicalities, is a world where everyone’s on their best behavior really better (philosophically speaking). Is autonomy not worth something.
These types believe autonomy is disruptive to their perfect utopia and the sooner we get on the bandwagon the less they’ll have to punish us for it
Doesn’t seem much different from citizens turning on their neighbors under various fascist regimes…
If that were the case then people would be so well behaved considering that people post everything to social media nowadays.
Or maybe this psychopathic piece of shit knows HE would behave if he was being monitored again proving that every accusation is really just a confession?
great, let’s do it with politicians
unless theyre youtubers
TL; DR: Individualize and atomize privacy instead of regulation.
Big brother is watching
Fuck them
I just seen this too! Insane!
There are things outside morality that are subject to shame and judgement. But also freedom can be defined in the ability to make the choices others would like you not to. Mass surveillance aims to enable punishment of freedom.
And beyond all that, philosophically, there is no virtue without the capacity for vice. Integrity is often described as what you do when nobody’s watching.
Oh and this mass surveillance is already seriously fucking with everyone’s heads. So many people are living increasingly performatively. Between mass surveillance and social media it’s becoming more and more normal to feel this shame and self consciousness that impairs the ability to just live.
We all know that watching people makes them behave differently, so why does TechCrunch feel the need to remind me of that right now in particular?
You children will grow to love the panopticon. They will learn their place and never question it, even in private, because there is no private anymore. They will never have any original thoughts or conversations because those lead to crimes. If you don’t want to commit crimes, then why are you not repeating the norms of the society we have created for you? Clearly you are formenting some criminal plot.
Against the wall citizen!
