They do matter, and this is why: imposed/conditoned behaviours, manufactured
desires, data collected, patterns discovered and exploited - all these are
controlled by a very few and affect many, and those many affect everyone else.
I don't see any GNU people collecting patterns and tracking end users in order
to deploy those insights into spreading the GNU-deology. No, they do it 1:1, in
a grassroots way, preaching to the choir, ensuring own irrelevance. You don't
need to agree with or believe in social engineering on a massive scale to be
affected by it, any more than you need to believe in or agree with firearms in
order to be shot.
You can not be a comfortable atheist in the land of religious zealots on remote
control, which is what iphone rubbing 'tards are. Their attention is captured
and tamed, and monitored for deviation (the Inquisition was a very expensive
and inefficient way of ensuring compliance.)
> do we really care about helping the "powerless tards rubbing iphones"
> you talk about? they are happy, "they have nothing to hide" and can
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