… OK, no, there’s a slow dawning that online privacy is important for many reasons, but it never seems to translate into action. Probably largely because there’s hardly any consumer alternatives. Employers have been renewing contracts with Big Tech for decades and can’t be arsed to even think about changing their behavior.
They’re still going to buy new surveillophones just to be able to log in again.
So, we have to convince people not of the “morality” of whatever action we want them to take, but the strategic importance of the action. To do that you have to have an action in mind and I see these two things as the stumbling block most people trip over on a lot of the time on most issues.
Once you have an aim to achieve and you have convinced people of its strategic importance, you just need them to stay on the same page and working in the same direction.
People are so oblivious to this shit.
… OK, no, there’s a slow dawning that online privacy is important for many reasons, but it never seems to translate into action. Probably largely because there’s hardly any consumer alternatives. Employers have been renewing contracts with Big Tech for decades and can’t be arsed to even think about changing their behavior.
They’re still going to buy new surveillophones just to be able to log in again.
Fuck privacy
So, we have to convince people not of the “morality” of whatever action we want them to take, but the strategic importance of the action. To do that you have to have an action in mind and I see these two things as the stumbling block most people trip over on a lot of the time on most issues.
Once you have an aim to achieve and you have convinced people of its strategic importance, you just need them to stay on the same page and working in the same direction.