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300 sats \ 2 replies \ @LibertasBR 9 Feb \ on: Why I'm Paranoid privacy
I feel that no matter what I do, the people around me are weak links that leave me vulnerable to the very attacks you described. Years of sharing information from people all over the world have also played a major role in weakening this chain.
Yesterday, I published an article expressing this feeling. To me, the real problem now is the generations that were born into this system—unlike us, who created it.
My hope lies in these same young people, as they are becoming increasingly aware of mass surveillance. If this awareness reaches a breaking point, the system could collapse abruptly. From that moment on, I can only hope that the response leads to more freedom rather than more surveillance—unlike in recent years, when they dictated what we could say and how we should say it.
So why resist when resistance is futile? Recently I finished a game called "1000x Resist" and the Hong Kong protests were part of two of the character's backstories. I found this scene especially relevant.
Before this scene the Mother is talking about how maybe they shouldn't have resisted since all that did was cause the CCP to bring their fist down harder. So maybe life would have just been easier if they just obeyed. Afterall, they lost anyway.
FATHER: You remember? In the streets...hundreds of thousands marching shoulder to shoulder... Biggest demonstrations in HK history. The world watched it all happen. Heard our voices. Saw us bleed.
MOTHER: So?
FATHER: So if we stayed silent? Didn't stand up for ourselves? They would say...this is how it always was. They would say...this is what the people wanted. But no. They can't say that. Because it has gone down in history... That we resisted fiercely. That we fought for a different future...until we couldn't. That legacy lives in us.
MOTHER: ...dies with us too.
FATHER: Yes. But it lives on in Iris [their child].
Even when resistance is futile, resistance itself is not without purpose.
I may or may not write an article around stories that portray resistance against a regime, their tropes, the real life accuracies of those tropes and why those stories are told through fiction rather than as a boring step by step guide.
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In fact, resistance is important, however useless it may seem. Our form of resistance in relation to privacy must be to demand good practices from the agents who hold our data while we seek truly private ways of expressing ourselves and controlling our assets.
As much as the current generation and even mine have given them everything, the future will only be given if we don't resist and don't look for more privacy and control.
Yes, write the article, tag me, I like hearing real stories like this.
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