Blaze ( Blaze@piefed.zip ) to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 6 months ago“I Have Nothing to Hide”- The Dumbest Lie We Keep Repeatingwww.hownottoloseyourmind.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up1163
arrow-up1163external-link“I Have Nothing to Hide”- The Dumbest Lie We Keep Repeatingwww.hownottoloseyourmind.comBlaze ( Blaze@piefed.zip ) to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square17linkfedilink
minus-squareThe_Italian_Uncut ( The_Italian_Uncut@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoExactly. ‘I have nothing to hide’ is the surrender of a free mind. Privacy isn’t about hiding crimes. It’s about preventing power from knowing everything — before it decides what you’re allowed to think, say, or be. This is the core of Chat Control 2.0: not protecting children, but normalizing total surveillance. The lie is not just dumb. It’s the foundation of the new control.
Exactly. ‘I have nothing to hide’ is the surrender of a free mind.
Privacy isn’t about hiding crimes. It’s about preventing power from knowing everything — before it decides what you’re allowed to think, say, or be.
This is the core of Chat Control 2.0: not protecting children, but normalizing total surveillance.
The lie is not just dumb. It’s the foundation of the new control.