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Respecting someone's privacy doesn't mean forcing them to "consensually" give up their privacy.



Thank you. I think this is very often overlooked. "Consent" gets thrown around alot but most of the time people basically have no choice if they want to, you know, participate in modern society. That's one of the reasons why an open web is so so so important and why I think Tim Berners Lee is working so hard to try to bring some part of that back as the "online world" (apps and internet) become more and more walled garden.

If you are coerced into giving consent, it isn't consent, and most of the time if you're doing it so you can be part of the world around you, it is coerced, whether people want to recognize that or not.




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