Stop saying stupid stuff like:
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
Start saying:
"A free country doesn't track innocent citizens."
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Stop saying stupid stuff like:
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
Start saying:
"A free country doesn't track innocent citizens."
@Tutanota Ask them to tell you when was the last time they wanked.
@Tutanota the good question here is also a way https://mamot.fr/@ploum/117078842383109177
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The right answr is: "Well, unlock your phone and give it to me"
I think that some Tech Bro lobbyists might see that differently. Or why is eg. chat control a recurring topic in EU parliament 😉
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"I have plenty of things to hide though, do you want to see proof of that?", is my go-to response.
Works every time.
@Tutanota Let's shorten that further: "A free country does not surveil citizens."
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And "Under a non-free country, everyone has something to hide. Literally everyone"
@Tutanota @windsorwindsor2 unfortunately the people with plenty to hide, who are burying the Epstein Files, are fearing nothing.
@Tutanota @chadmccullough "it's not that I have something to hide. I have things I don't want to share."
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There are thousands of laws, rules, and regulations, federal, state, and local, that you could be unknowingly in violation of. Constant surveillance will expose an excuse to apprehend you.
@Tutanota agree! but, if I'm not tracking you, I can't know if you are innocent!! ;-)
@Tutanota Motorists are not innocent, they are psychotic murderers.
@Tutanota In particular, in a free country you do not have to carry ID with you, you cannot be stopped on the street and asked for "papers please", and you cannot be arrested for not having them with you.
(I'm looking at you, France.)
@Tutanota Everyone has something to hide, when you go to the Toilet you hide yourself!
@Tutanota The first phrase can often be followed by a «why are you doxxing me?» and the retort «why would you want your address and phone number hidden?»
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I love the Terry Pratchett quote
Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.
@Tutanota "Nothing to hide no reason to look"
@Tutanota nobody is innocent. no one can judge whether anyone is innocent.
and the "stupid stuff"you say, I have a batter words:无欲则刚, and it's no stupid.
@Tutanota innocent until proven otherwise.
Surveillance assumes not innocent
@Tutanota "If you have nothing to hide, then keep your fingers crossed that your very existence isn't declared illegal one day."
@Tutanota You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to lose.
@Tutanota there is a lot to hide that is nobody else's business, especially if you don't violate the law, and everyone should be able to decide for themselves what they disclose, and those who really harm the people, embezzle data and personal rights, are neither controlled nor punished, it's a crazy world
@Tutanota Saying "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" shows a distinct lack of imagination, both when considering things to fear, and things to hide.
"I am fine with surveillance, I haven't done anything wrong"
Second person "until someone changes the definition of 'wrong' ."
@Tutanota its the panopticon, the Politicians can see they are losing control of the narrative so we need to be controlled.
@Tutanota You are 💯 right. Privacy is a human right not something bad or illegal.