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A comment on Public by Default: Venmo Stories of 2017. Parent comment

Re:Public by Default: Venmo Stories of 2017 by eerwrq on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:09PM (#17879136)
> To me privacy issue is better solved by radical transparency for everyone.

Human societies don't work like this, and never had. People aren't meant to live in a world where everything is public. You are advocating for a very dangerous and unhealthy transformation.

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Re:Public by Default: Venmo Stories of 2017 by paulcole on Thursday August 30, 2018 @03:54PM (#17880153)
> People aren't meant to live in a world where everything is public.

You're saying this like it's a well-known fact. Is there any research or just your opinion?

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Re:Public by Default: Venmo Stories of 2017 by matz1 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:15PM (#17879210)
Society always changing. It will not be a quick change, it will be gradual. It seem like the trend is going toward that way though.We have this expression "Information wants to be free". The advancement of technology make it easier for information to spread. Most kids today is already gradually accustomed to live where many thing is public.
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Re:Public by Default: Venmo Stories of 2017 by jonahx on Thursday August 30, 2018 @03:51PM (#17880125)
> We have this expression "Information wants to be free".

This expression refers to public available information which is nevertheless copyrighted and costs money. [0]

I have never in my life (before now) heard anyone seriously argue that all private information, and all personal secrets should be free.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free

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Re:Public by Default: Venmo Stories of 2017 by leetcrew on Friday August 31, 2018 @08:08AM (#17884816)
i always took the expression to be a valueless statement on the tendency of digital information to be widely disseminated. more "you can't stop the signal" than a moral claim.
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