Freddy @freddy@social.privacytools.io

First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult

https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult

@Decentralize_today it also predicted Brexit, and all manner of other things. But just look what the Rees-Mogg family is doing now:

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/jacob-rees-mogg-scottish-fishermen-brexit-troubles-6904448

@kekcoin He predicted the chaose of 2020. To quote from the article:

> [Imagine] a huge ship headed directly for an iceberg: “If you have a discussion among the crew about which way to turn, you will not turn in time, and you hit the iceberg directly.” The past 10 years or so have been discussion. That sickening crunch you now hear—steel twisting, rivets popping—­­is the sound of the ship hitting the iceberg."

We need to stop the data economy, before humanity pays the ultimate price

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/blog/we-need-to-stop-the-data-economy-before-humanity-pays-the-ultimate-price/

@thenewoil lol

@x it's a good feeling.

@x Signal is not the best option by any means. But by god it's better than most of the other options. It's all about threat models.

Surveillance, Privacy and COVID-19

https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2020/04/76-surveillance-privacy-and-covid-19.html

(I understand the irony of this being a blogspot link).

@ThatHideousStrength https://social.privacytools.io/about/more

@kev @yarmo 's right on this one. No need for that 😅

@kev you need to add @rw !

Yes, you do have something to hide

https://web.archive.org/web/20140525004902if_/http://safeandsavvy.f-secure.com/2013/11/27/yes-you-do-have-something-to-hide/

"Getting people to value privacy is like trying to get somebody raised on Burger King to value their heath. They won't know how important it is until they have that first stroke."

Possibly the best thing to come out of #lounge:privacytools.io

On the off chance that anyone lives in Gibraltar, please purchase the google.gi domain.

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/

@kev for DDG, I've heard people "quack" something.

@nar oh how we try.

@amolith I have been meanig to make something like this for a while. That theme is awesome!

@amolith sad how much that made me chuckle.