Shared Teddit URL, if Teddit does not work then use this old Reddit URL: https://reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/k7vngo/2020_special_the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_my/
Lemmy has a 5000 letter limit, and my writeup is 11000 letters, hence the direct linking.
Sure, the only thing I critized was that idea that highly prevails in the privacy community and in society in general that there are events or decisions which are not political, and therefore that some spaces should remain “unpoliticized”. For example, “privacy is something that affects us all, and therefore we should all unite and fight for it”, as if we should allow nazis to participate in any kind of decision making.
Something very similar happens in gaming, I’ve heard a lot of times stuff like “SJWs came and started to get politics into videogames, they are entertainment, it shouldn’t be a matter of politics” as if videogames weren’t a hyper politicized environment, full of mysoginy and male centered.
The same happens everywhere, all arguments are political arguments, I’m not referring when one opinion may seem like a right wing one (saying that what Israel is doing now with Palestine is genocide) when actuallt it is a left wing one; when it is hard to tell if one argument is in one side of the spectrum or the other, just that they are all political.
These things are very hard to deal with. Where misogyny is the buzzword, feminists will ignore misandry, thus people seeing them as authoritarian and ignoring their cause.
The cause of privacy is also politicised in ways. That said, the status quo consensus needs to change, as there is lot of wrong and hypocrisy in today’s version of justice.