Join us 2025-09-19T21:00:00Z for This Week In Privacy #19, to catch up on the latest Privacy Guides updates and to discuss trending news in the privacy space.
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I don’t get why people are so mad about this. Free speech dies? Who’s going to stop you and do something about it? Consider this - if we were using our real name here, would anything change? Maybe only spammers and fake accounts wouldn’t be able to spread malice.
Who in your mind should decide what “malice” is? How do you suppose free speech would be untouchable while malice and spam wouldn’t be?
Privacy isn’t “hiding,” it’s control. Tie every account to government ID and you’ve built a turnkey system for soft punishment: employer pressure, bank de-risking, travel flags, algo throttling. No raid needed to chill speech.
“Malice” isn’t a fixed target. The same tools that block bots will block dissent once the wrong admin has the switch.
Until one sees it in action, it’s often too nebulous to see how your data can be used against you, even the most trivial things but I assure you that anything can be used to disenfranchise, or worse. There are benefits to sharing data sure but it comes down to access and ownership.
I sincerely recommend you read up a lot more on this issue on the many posts and comments on this forum for why you’re objectively wrong with your thinking here as this is not merely a matter of opinion but factual given the established correlation between privacy, free speech, and an open world (democracy, etc.)
I hope you’ll change your views. I also hope the irony and hypocrisy is not lost on your for not using your real name here.
Question for the podcast @jordan -
Please correct this line of thinking in your episode in order to educate folks with such types of views and explain why this type of thinking does not follow sound logic.
I thought this might be someone who is naive but I’m actually convinced it’s a troll based on the last sentence 
28 posts were split to a new topic: My Age Verification Solution Proposal
Just a reminder this is a thread for posting questions for the team to answer during the livestream.
Could the potential requirement for ID verification on ChatGPT affect third‑party wrappers like Duck.ai?
I’m complicit in going off topic but the thread should have long been split into another post from Terrance’s long comment. I should have recognized the deviation but got caught up in the people-are-wrong-I-need-to-correct-them mindset. I apologize for that. I should know better.
Sure the technology is there for confidential age verification but what makes anyone believe for a moment that government authorities would even so much as consider using it never mind adopting it when the end game is to have you vulnerable to coercion and manipulation. How do you think big tech gets away with monopolistic trading if it’s not by doing back room deals with politicians using access to your data as the primary incentive.
I am also going to go off topic again too.
My long comment (proposed solution) was a question for the Livestream.
What came after that was not.
i got a question , whats privacy guides official view on who deserves access to privacy , particularly for oppressed & marginalized groups like indigenous peoples, black & brown communities, women, unhoused folks, undocumented immigrants, lgbtia+ folks, the youth, and others?
If I am at a public area (like a library or coffee shop), is it better to use a public wifi, or tether from a phone?
Another question I have, is the security issues of Debian even real issues at this point? I think Flatpaks and Snaps solves these issues. Also, security-focused distros like Kicksecure are based off Debian. I assume this is utilmately a threat modeling question?
Lastly, are UEFI/BIOS updates even help all that much? It seems that vendors are not good with these updates and it is just better to install something like Coreboot.
Obviously I won’t provide my name if it isn’t required. But if it was, would it change much if you knew I’m John Doe?
I think we have different views on what malice is. Maybe I didn’t say clearly what I wanted to. But what I meant was spam, ragebait, malvare.