No Company Is So Important Its Existence Justifies Setting Up a Police State

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46 pointsjrepinc4 comments

>What is data privacy? The term implies that if a company collects data about you, it should somehow protect that data. But I don’t think that’s the issue. I think the problem is that it collects data about you period. We shouldn’t let them do that.

I really hope that there comes a day when he is not considered as complete lunatic by general populace.

We're already there. The general public today has no opinion of or knowledge of RMS.

But maybe you mean you hope we have a day when these valid arguments he makes here aren't so far out of mainstream that people find them impossible to deal with?

Very much this. The real problem is getting the message to the masses when the message platforms that they use are controlled and censored.

Aside from the tiny side issue of my disagreement with RMS's make-work advocacy in railing against self-checkout at stores, this interview is remarkably well-put, concise, clear, and exceptionally important. I hope it gets widely read.

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