I'm aware of all those arguments and I completely agree with them in principle, but I genuinely would be SO far down the oppression list.
It's definitely a privilege to be the majority ethnicity and sexuality in a modern western liberal democracy, but it is what it is. The chances of the British government suddenly turning against white straight apolitical irreligious men are just so low it's not something I worry about.
What I worry about more are things like people breaking into my house, my dog chewing up the carpet and forgetting where I left my glasses.
I do hope that we can figure out a way to package all the privacy violating cloud-based services in a way that's simple to use, encrypted, local only, etc. though so perhaps more subversive people can enjoy these systems without worrying about oppression.
To be quite honest, the most privacy sensitive things in my life are probably my emails and documents, but those are all already in Google Drive and Gmail anyway, along with basically everyone else's. All anyone will get from my cameras is a stream of me feeding my rabbits, browsing tiktok and scratching my arse. GCHQ are welcome to tune in any day, provided they also help me pick out my clothes in the morning.
It's definitely a privilege to be the majority ethnicity and sexuality in a modern western liberal democracy, but it is what it is. The chances of the British government suddenly turning against white straight apolitical irreligious men are just so low it's not something I worry about.
What I worry about more are things like people breaking into my house, my dog chewing up the carpet and forgetting where I left my glasses.
I do hope that we can figure out a way to package all the privacy violating cloud-based services in a way that's simple to use, encrypted, local only, etc. though so perhaps more subversive people can enjoy these systems without worrying about oppression.
To be quite honest, the most privacy sensitive things in my life are probably my emails and documents, but those are all already in Google Drive and Gmail anyway, along with basically everyone else's. All anyone will get from my cameras is a stream of me feeding my rabbits, browsing tiktok and scratching my arse. GCHQ are welcome to tune in any day, provided they also help me pick out my clothes in the morning.