[smc-discuss] Facebook and Google spy on you

[Pirate Praveen]

On Thursday 06 November 2014 10:58 PM, Akshay S Dinesh wrote:
> RMS does not even use a cellphone. He's the definition of paranoid.
> But we should all be paranoid :P
> 
> Praveen, you said we're forced to use WhatsApp, facebook to not miss the
> interaction. But we can still make that choice. That's why I said
> British India is not a nice analogy. If people were tired of Britain,
> they couldn't just choose to be not ruled by Britain. On the other hand
> if you use McDonald's analogy, you can explain things easier. When
> everyone of your friend goes to McDonald's you are forced to go there
> (even though the food is less healthy and more expensive), but you can
> still convince everyone to have food in your house.

Well, people did chose not to obey the British law. But the cost they
paid was lockups. The point is the cost of leaving (or disobeying) is
too high to effectively make that choice meaningless for most people.


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