Re:Data on 7% of Americans Were Just Hacked, Now What?
by miguelrochefort on Saturday July 11, 2015 @03:28PM
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You won't have to remember that people cheat or lie. The currency system takes care of it.
Lying is a crime. Refusing to communicate is an hindrance. Fortunately, the incentives for being transparent will far out-weight any benefit privacy could provide.
Privacy is why racism and LGBH issues exist in the first place. Tolerance sets in very quickly when constantly exposed to reality.
Likewise, privacy sustains the need to hide skeleton in the closet and conceal past mistakes. When everyone is exposed, it just becomes commonplace and they're not that remarkable anymore. If anything, it will be easier to understand why and how mistakes happen, and we'll be able to reduce their occurrence significantly. Today, the worst problems/mistakes are those people are working the hardest to conceal. Don't you see how that's a problem?
Privacy doesn't cure the underlying fear of being exposed. It gives you a sensation of safety in a society that's inherently broken. No wonder shameless people are so successful. Privacy, again, is the cause of that imbalance. Get rid of privacy, and people will start accepting the imperfect person they are.
I'm not advocating a complete switch today. I need people to understand that privacy is not a sustainable long-term solution, and that we need to make important changes to society that will facilitate the eventual switch to total transparency. It's not like you have a choice, transparency will be imposed on you whether you want it or not. The sooner you take steps to facilitate and embrace the switch, the easier and smoother the process will be.
A good analogy for that is fossil fuel. I don't suggest that everyone switch to electric cars today, but we have to take steps to prepare for an eventual switch. Like privacy, we can only use so much fossil fuel before it's gone.
Lying is a crime. Refusing to communicate is an hindrance. Fortunately, the incentives for being transparent will far out-weight any benefit privacy could provide.
Privacy is why racism and LGBH issues exist in the first place. Tolerance sets in very quickly when constantly exposed to reality.
Likewise, privacy sustains the need to hide skeleton in the closet and conceal past mistakes. When everyone is exposed, it just becomes commonplace and they're not that remarkable anymore. If anything, it will be easier to understand why and how mistakes happen, and we'll be able to reduce their occurrence significantly. Today, the worst problems/mistakes are those people are working the hardest to conceal. Don't you see how that's a problem?
Privacy doesn't cure the underlying fear of being exposed. It gives you a sensation of safety in a society that's inherently broken. No wonder shameless people are so successful. Privacy, again, is the cause of that imbalance. Get rid of privacy, and people will start accepting the imperfect person they are.
I'm not advocating a complete switch today. I need people to understand that privacy is not a sustainable long-term solution, and that we need to make important changes to society that will facilitate the eventual switch to total transparency. It's not like you have a choice, transparency will be imposed on you whether you want it or not. The sooner you take steps to facilitate and embrace the switch, the easier and smoother the process will be.
A good analogy for that is fossil fuel. I don't suggest that everyone switch to electric cars today, but we have to take steps to prepare for an eventual switch. Like privacy, we can only use so much fossil fuel before it's gone.