It's a good one, here is a related one that talks about the social effects:
https://www.socialcooling.com/ To me, part of the problem is that online communications are constantly creating a permanent record, like Snowden puts it. This list, for example, should really be regarded as private, a conversation with the liberation folks. But it's actually public by virtue of having an eternal record of everything said here made available on a discoverable part the Web. Any joke, criticism or statement can then be taken out of context and copy-pasted somewhere else; in the worst case, this results in a public lynching of the author. The lack of privacy then leads to a chilling effect, to self-censorship; every word must be carefully measured, even the email address you send this from and other metadata must be considered. On the other hand, if the mailing list record just self-destructed after a while (Signal does this with messages), then the problem would not be as bad. Copy-pasting something out of context and lynching the author would now have to be a targeted attack as opposed to something you can do retroactively any day and any time. Most people would not bother unless you were a high-profile target. The same arguments Snowden makes about the NSA collecting a permanent record to then retroactively find crime as opposed to looking for evidence for an existing investigation apply to online social communication just as well. There is of course value in making the list publicly available to build community, provide a learning resource and so on, so automated self-destruction seems like a good balance and default to me. Things become semi-private, or semi-public; words are written on sand instead of stone. On 10/2/20 8:57 AM, Yosem Companys wrote: > https://inre.me/why-privacy-is-the-most-important-concept-of-our-time/ >
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