“Your kids will grow up in a world with no ‘off the record’,” he writes to any parents reading his post. “Teach them that the best privacy strategy is integrity, living so that being seen costs you nothing. And fight, hard, for a world where the watching goes both ways.”
The prob, ofc, is that it doesn’t matter if YOU think you’re doing something wrong. It only matters if someone ELSE thinks you are doing something wrong. Maybe you ahve the wrong religion. Maybe you have the wrong skin color. Maybe you push for democracy in an autocratic system. Maybe you’re female in a society that opresses the shit out of women. Or w/e! A million things.
In a globally connected world, there will be someone who hates you and tries to destroy you, no matter WHO you are. No matter HOW much integrity, or HOW decent a human you are.
Also, fuck this guy. I want every moment of his life recorded and live streamed to youtube. If he is doing nothing wrong, he has nothing to hide.
BTW. He’s an asshole, and he’s wrong about a hell of a lot. But he’s not wrong about that.
Which scares me. A whole generation will grow up with constant inescapable surveilence as their normal. They’ve literally never known anything else.
the only ethical thing to do is not have kids!
Or smash the surveillance apparatus
If you really want kids, you can always get pre-owned. That’s better for the environment.