Daring Fireball, John Gruber, and Threads

Why oh why do the people who care a Very Much Lot about privacy assume everyone else does too, or should on some moral axis? Like the very nature of not thinking of privacy as some value worth maximizing is in and of itself an Evil Act?

Why does the idea that people are free and reasonable to give up an amount of privacy for convenience (or entertainment) break their brains so thoroughly?

And why does it come in the form of insults and belittling language, such as this submission?

You should be free to be private, I'll defend that to the ends of the earth, but I'm also free to not be quite as private, and if you won't defend that to the ends of the earth in kind, what's that about?

I absolutely love articles where I don't agree with John Gruber.

> “The entitlement of these fuckers is just off the charts.”

Gruber loves to attack everyone but Apple, but I could say the exact same thing about Apple and Google. These are the companies taking away our computing freedoms.

Unfriendly, simple, and cynical take cloaked in adding 79 quotes where Gruber critiqued Facebook.

HN hug of death…site is down for me.