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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by sephoric on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:51PM (#19089714)
It's an intellectual freedom that has no precedent throughout history. If you walked into a library in the 1950s and thumbed through a book about communism, you were probably put on a list. If you walked into a privately owned book store, the owners had a right to gossip and tell others what you purchased, and I'm sure many people unfortunately made use of that liberty. This isn't new.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by humanrebar on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:48PM (#19091299)
You could go a few towns over and there wouldn't be any gossip because they wouldn't know who the hell you were.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by prepend on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:48PM (#19090206)
There are many amazing new possibilities brought about because of the Internet. Just because Stalin (and the FBI) tracked your library habits doesn’t mean we should squash out useful functionality.
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