Championing privacy and tech freedom with friends and family has often been a thankless or worse experience for me. Being the bearer of bad news and inconvenient facts puts misplaced ire on me. Ignorance is bliss. I feel a responsibility to my friends and family and do not want to be alone in understanding. At the same time, I do not want to be hated. I really try to restrain and tone down the topic, but the ideas consume me. I guess many people here have a similar experience?
@krock Hard to get normies to understand the full extent of the problem when they realise right away that "this conversation is going in the direction of pushing me away from something that's fun or convenient". Just like meat eaters w/a shred of empathy don't want to hear about what animals go through.. the knowledge comes w/responsibility they don't want, so they refuse the knowledge.
@krock It's a case of intentional self-inflicted ignorance to avoid the inconvenience of ethical duty & activism.
@krock When privacy & tech freedom fail as selling points, I try to appeal to other aspects. E.g. if the audience is progressive, then tell them that Trump was in power because of Facebook (catalyzed by #CambridgeAnalytica). I'm sorry to say that the tactic isn't working. They still won't give up #Facebook even knowing it empowered the most notorious scumbag in modern times.
