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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48428963

I personally do, he actually risked his life to release information about the government spying on people. And there are for sure more advanced ways now. Even your phone is listening.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We are learning as a species that public relations (messaging, propaganda, whatever) is effective, and when the ownership class can put trillions into controlling the masses, it works.

I'd like to think there's a counter for it, but the worker class seems to be willing to suffer a lot of misery so long as someone else is suffering more than they are.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

If we could function like ants... Sacrifice 10% to save the 90%, that would be a net gain for the species. But nobody is voluntarily signing up to be in that 10% 😅

Perhaps that's both a feature and a bug of humanity