hey thanks for your nice words. I have to face those kind of comments a lot, due to my interests. I use to start saying the same thing Edward Snowden once said: "saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is the same as saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you don't have anything to say". It's a matter of empathy, to be responsible of others rights. Not everyone who needs privacy is a criminal, there are activists, journalist, and other kind of users that are in need of privacy and digital rights to get a better situation and to help others. Internet should be open to work, if we don't care about other countries censorship, we are actually censoring ourselves too, as we will be unaware of their situation from the outside. As users we have both rights and responsibilities, as any human being in a society/community does. I think US is very committed to neighborhoods, or that's what we think from the outside. It doesn't make any sense to be like that in real life, but being individualist on the internet.
I hope to have given you some consistent arguments for that kind of situations :)
That's very helpful, thanks for the thoughtful reply! I really like the rights & responsibilities angle and I'm definitely going to try that next time :)
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hey thanks for your nice words. I have to face those kind of comments a lot, due to my interests. I use to start saying the same thing Edward Snowden once said: "saying you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is the same as saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you don't have anything to say". It's a matter of empathy, to be responsible of others rights. Not everyone who needs privacy is a criminal, there are activists, journalist, and other kind of users that are in need of privacy and digital rights to get a better situation and to help others. Internet should be open to work, if we don't care about other countries censorship, we are actually censoring ourselves too, as we will be unaware of their situation from the outside. As users we have both rights and responsibilities, as any human being in a society/community does. I think US is very committed to neighborhoods, or that's what we think from the outside. It doesn't make any sense to be like that in real life, but being individualist on the internet.
I hope to have given you some consistent arguments for that kind of situations :)
That's very helpful, thanks for the thoughtful reply! I really like the rights & responsibilities angle and I'm definitely going to try that next time :)