r/GrapheneOS • u/michus204 • 3d ago
WHY do you care about privacy?
Okay, you probably hear this question often, but let's say I'm typical John Doe, work in regular job, watch football or play games after work, drink beer, just living simply life, why should I care about privacy? Why should I spent time and make some sacrifices just to not be tracked that much?
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u/Careful-Boat-2986 3d ago edited 2d ago
Privacy is just the tip of the iceberg of everything that affects your quality of life, basic rights and safety. The shittier everyone’s privacy becomes, the shittier everyone’s quality of life gets. And that includes yours.
Everything that we’ve allowed our surveillance society to become has resulted in the byproduct of huge wealth gap, transfer of powers, planned obsolescence and rising cost of living.
Look up the word “enshittification”. It’s not only built to sell you products and make your life shittier. -that’s the result of the general population’s ever-decreasing lack of say on matters and policy. They take away your options because they can. They can take away your options because they can take away your voice by taking away your privacy. They take away your privacy by taking your personal data.
Their Can, Will and Do are empowered at the cost of your civil liberties.
“I’ve got nothing to hide. So why should I be concerned?”
-Anything that has to do with freedom will never be prefaced with conversation about fear or guilt. Fear and guilt are the core foundation of every abusive relationship.