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Go move to Pakistan or Egypt as an agnostic or atheist, or Jew. Or move to China as a dissenter to their government. Let us see how "no privacy" works for you.

Or hell, just live in the US. There is plenty of prosecution of ideologies people don't agree with - have a pedophile who doesn't practice it express their physical attraction to children and see how people like that. Or maybe you like polygamy. Or hell, in many towns it is as bad as the Middle Eastern countries - profess your agnosticism or atheism and you get denied service at establishments and mugged.

Privacy is an essential guard when people with power don't like what you think. The ability to hide information you don't want them to know can keep you alive.




Privacy is like wearing an air-pollution mask in China. It might be a wise thing to do right now, but this is not something we want to be doing forever. This is only meant to be temporary.

When people talk about privacy, they don't think about it as a tool. They don't talk about it like people in China talk about an air-pollution mask. Do you often hear about how air-pollution masks should be a right and why we need them to preserve a freer future?


There will never be a utopia so flawless that freedom becomes entirely unnecessary.




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