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·قبل 9 سنوات·discuss
For example, in any discussion of anything anywhere on reddit that mentions anything about feminism/social justice/women's experiences there are thousands of brigaders from alt right groups, the donald, that down vote, spew garbage/destroy the thread. Doesn't matter how civilized and respectful the subreddit is, there's always at least one lurking on the lookout for it and it only takes one link. Look at a discussion about a feminist book, a discussion about a scientist who is female and worried about mistreatment in the workplace, anything. Hundreds of accounts come out of the woodwork, spew hate, call people 'cucks', upvote each other and downvote others. Threads are locked, comments sections turn into grey graveyards, the particular community moves on and learns not to discuss things like this because, well, is having the discussion really worth dealing with all that inevitable encapsulated impotent teenage male rage?
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·قبل 11 سنة·discuss
For a while it was considered creepy to have a camera on your phone at all times. There was no way to know if you were filming/photographing at any time.

People in certain secure facilities or attorneys in many courtrooms weren't allowed to bring in phones with cameras because of respect for the privacy/security of the information and people within.

Now there are no phones without cameras and the insistence on privacy in many of these facilities has been relaxed to saying "please don't take pictures". Not because it's not important, but because of consumer decisions on the whole demanding cameras, to the point where they are in every viable option and it's not feasible to ban them. And privacy/security are eroded.

So when you make a consumer choice like this you're giving our society a tiny little push in that direction. You're pushing always-on always-recording voice monitoring software in the most intimate places of our lives to become the new norm.