On the flipside, how fucked up the world is that TVs spying on you had become normalized.

The problem isn't with people being too busy, it shouldn't be up to the people, it should be a government regulation problem. There's a lot of 'todo' around potential breaches of PII, so why not do something about the ridiculously large and obtaining trade in exactly that from almost anything you purchase nowadays, including the place you purchase it from.

Gross governmental negligence across the entire West, at least.

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You put those things in the same sentence but they don't even remotely carry the same weight. People are sick and dying and have to weigh weather or not they want to declare bankruptcy or go to the doctor. Or buy their medication vs buying food. Their TV serving them directed ads isn't even in the same universe.

You're arguing the same thing, just from a different perspective.

Ah yes, because there are people who are hungry in the world, nobody should be concerned about anything until world hunger is solved.

And how privileged a world the _other_ people live in where someone else is worrying about it _for_ them.

The news? Or the underprivileged? The news doesn’t cater to the underprivileged in general, and might well be “in bed with” companies on this point.

It’s curious this ritual of relatively well-off individuals—and your bio supports that theory—pointing fingers at each other for having privilege. Certainly when they are talking about a topic that affects everyone with a TV, not whatever people of their means get up to that the underprivilged don’t.

People who care could do the work for all of us. It’s not like everyone needs to care about surveillance in television gadgets in order to make a difference.

Or, you know, not necessarily that focused. The comment you are replying to just said that the news are in bed with companies. That often generalizes beyond tech gadgets.

Ok sure, but if you're going to play that card, then you have to also say that they can and should recognize that those "other" things are often also symptoms of the same disease.

People are capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time (and they are capable of placing appropriate energy towards the walking to not trip because they were too focused on the gum chewing...)