On Sat, 01 May 2021 12:00:30 +0200 deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joe wrote: > > > There is nothing 'religious' about assuming that many private > > businesses will take every opportunity to make money from you in > > ways that you would not permit if you were given the choice. What > > is the purpose of 'free' social media, after all? What about the > > written guarantee cards provided with products since the early > > twentieth century, to be returned to obtain some small additional > > benefit? What were they if not the gathering of low-level > > purchasing information to assist future marketing? We *know* that's > > the kind of thing businesses do. We should expect them to use all > > possibly technological assistance to do it more and better. And we > > can certainly expect our rulers to spy on us whenever possible. > > Assumption is not evidence, but if you are intelligent enough, you > would take precautions to make this assumption obsolete. It means you > still do not know if this is true or not, but you take measures in > case it is true. Exactly so. You don't *know* that all the other drivers on the roads with you are lunatics, but you try to drive so that it doesn't matter too much if they are (disclaimer: I've never tried driving in Rome). It's not sane to take precautions against events which cannot possibly happen, but there are very few of those nowadays. > > For me personally I know for sure that I will never get a TV or one > of the normal smart phones. Even with linux and whatever kind of > precautions you never trust that. -- Joe
