• veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    1391·
    9 months ago

    Would you like to save this Lemmy post of a Tumblr post of a Reddit post that has been cross-posted on Lemmy to your Pinterest board?

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
    104·
    9 months ago

    I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgements and intentions are.

    Gold!

  • LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
    50·
    9 months ago

    I’m not concerned with the people who keep their blinds closed. I’m concerned with the people who want to peek in windows.

  • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
    281·
    9 months ago

    People erroneously believe that the Nazis fled to Argentina. This is not true, they were given high-ranking jobs within America’s institutions.

        • Gabu@lemmy.ml
          7·
          9 months ago

          Source: the fact they did and you can see loads of German immigrants arriving suspiciously close to the end of WW2. Same deal with the Brazilian South, loads of Germans from that time (some of which won’t even pretend they’re not Nazis. There was a recent arrest for a man flying Nazi flags).

    • ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip
      6·
      9 months ago

      Also in German institutions and the government. I mean what else are you gonna do? Put women in charge? /s

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Some nazis were given high ranking jobs in the US, typically those who were good at science and math (although we got a lot more of our big science brains from refugees fleeing the German Reich. Brain drain in autocratic and fascist movements is a very real thing, and has happened in multiple fields here in the states).

      When it came to NSDAP Idealogues, we didn’t really need to import any, as all of our big industrialists were pro-NSDAP and believed in the ideology independently (which is to say they agreed with them, and still do, even if they don’t regard themselves as aligned with the NSDAP political party). Those that did come here were friends of gazillionaires (who would be billionaires today, though the dollar was stronger then. J. P. Morgan, Carnegie and Rockefeller all were 100-millionaires.

      Plenty of escaping Nazi officers fled across the world. South American nations are notorious because they weren’t actively hunting them down (yet) so they required less subversion getting through customs, and then could work out identity changes and fade into seclusion later. Plenty did come to the United States, pretending to be someone else, since they didn’t have rocket science cred.

      • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        plenty of escaping Nazi officers fled…

        This is a misattribution. Nazi officers were protected, transported, and given new lives by the US military and the Vatican working together.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    20·
    9 months ago

    In the early 2010s, If you’ve nothing to hide you’ve nothing to fear had already been resurfacing as a common thought-stopping cliché here in the states, since SCOTUS had been adding carve-outs by the dozens to the fourth amendment to the Constitution to the United States (the one about protections from unreasonable searches and seizures). At first, if you didn’t speak english, or are within 100 miles of a US border or coast (that’s most of the US), the police got free probable cause. Eventually SCOTUS ruled that if you were searched illegally and evidence for a crime was found, that evidence could not be suppressed if the crime was significant enough (e.g. the clothes of a missing child no wait, simple drug possession was enough.)

    We were already aware of the FISC, FBI National Security Letters (the origins of the NSL canary statements) and the disposition matrix, by which even US citizens could be sentenced to execution by secret trial; the right to face one’s accuser was long forfeit.

    But then, it was also a period in which US citizens averaged about three crimes a day, mostly violations of the CFAA (which Reagan signed into law after watching Wargames 1983. Violation of the TOS of a website was a federal felony, which meant every tween that got a Facebook Friendster or Myspace account was committing a crime that could be sentenced up to 25 years (what is the upper limit for murder one in some states). It wasn’t enforced… unless some official needed you to go away, say because he wanted your wife, or your property, or for you to shut up about his crimes.

    And this is one example, and why telephone encryption is such a problem. Today, it’s illegal in most states for law enforcement to search your phone once you’re in custody without a warrant. They do anyway, and might or might not be able to crack the encryption with current tech (it’s an ongoing race between exploits and fixes). If they find something worth prosecuting, or assets worth seizing or extorting you over, or if they just don’t like you, then yes, expect to lose all your valuable property and assets, and become their informant. Sexual favors may also be necessary if you’re attractive.

    And that’s why we need privacy, even as SCOTUS continues to strip it away from us.

    In the 2020s, though, it’s all the other technologies: IMSI spoofing, camera drones, ALPRs, Facial Recognition (which is a good way to get falsely convicted), Ring doorbell camera botnets, reverse warrants based on location or websearches, and so on. Big Brother is left holding the beer of IRL 2024.

  • Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world
    141·
    9 months ago

    Tragedy what happened to this hero.

    We have always been a shameful nation, even from the beginning.

    “All men are created equal”

    is slave state

    But what happened to Snowden was a modern reaffirmation of our long held belief that this is a nation not only created by the shitters, but also maintained for the new and improved generation of shitters.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    11·
    9 months ago

    Privacy and security are synonymous, especially on the internet. Already independent of the fact that certain companies make money with your data for spurious purposes, too often without control and necessary protection.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    10·
    9 months ago

    Goebbels is not the first person to say this. An earlier quote comes from Upton Sinclair in 1918:

    Not merely was my own mail opened, but the mail of all my relatives and friends—people residing in places as far apart as California and Florida. I recall the bland smile of a government official to whom I complained about this matter: ‘If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.’

    Let’s be clear: the right to privacy is not a fascist dogma.

    • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Since Goebbels used the phrase “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”, then he’d be the one arguing against the right to privacy. The fascist dogma is eroding privacy in favour of surveillance - ostensibly to protect the people, but really just to control them.

      • jsomae@lemmy.ml
        2·
        9 months ago

        I don’t know how I got that so backward when I wrote that. Thanks for correcting me.

  • Ferk@lemmy.ml
    9·
    9 months ago

    If they really think there’s no reason to hide anything, why are they prosecuting Snowden for exposing something that was hidden?

    Before having surveillance on people, they should have it on themselves.

    Imagine how many corruption cases could have been prevented if the government was publicly monitored, with live streams from all offices, like a “big brother” show set up in the white house with live recordings of all calls and communications, so the voters can judge by themselves and monitor if the person they employed as the servant for the country is doing its job.

  • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    9 months ago

    Can someone post that one meme please

    “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” “Oh ok, I’ll just leak these secret government files online then!” terror

  • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    9 months ago

    The same oligarchs who lash out at you for wanting privacy are the same who are doing dark evil deeds that they absolutely want to keep private and a secret.

  • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    9 months ago

    I fully agree with what he says, but it doesn’t seem to be an answer to her question.

    Yes, our right to privacy is important, and he very clearly, and, not sure how say it, makes it relatable and easy to understand.

    But, her question seems to have more to do with privacy at the cost of public safety.