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Originally posted by nottelling
. It's about time you people all stopped whingeing about privacy (haha) and liberty (LOL) and freedom (ROFL). This is the way it has to be. We are under continuing threat from the terrorists and if a few people get their animal porn fetish exposed in the process of our heroic government security forces meeting said threat, then so be it. If you don't like it then go move to Waziristan with all bin Laden's mates, because you're unAustralian..
When the nothing-to-hide argument is unpacked, and its underlying assumptions examined and challenged, we can see how it shifts the debate to its terms, then draws power from its unfair advantage. The nothing-to-hide argument speaks to some problems but not to others. It represents a singular and narrow way of conceiving of privacy, and it wins by excluding consideration of the other problems often raised with government security measures. When engaged directly, the nothing-to-hide argument can ensnare, for it forces the debate to focus on its narrow understanding of privacy. But when confronted with the plurality of privacy problems implicated by government data collection and use beyond surveillance and disclosure, the nothing-to-hide argument, in the end, has nothing to say.
chronicle.com...
Originally posted by Strainz
Originally posted by nottelling
. It's about time you people all stopped whingeing about privacy (haha) and liberty (LOL) and freedom (ROFL). This is the way it has to be. We are under continuing threat from the terrorists and if a few people get their animal porn fetish exposed in the process of our heroic government security forces meeting said threat, then so be it. If you don't like it then go move to Waziristan with all bin Laden's mates, because you're unAustralian..
When the nothing-to-hide argument is unpacked, and its underlying assumptions examined and challenged, we can see how it shifts the debate to its terms, then draws power from its unfair advantage. The nothing-to-hide argument speaks to some problems but not to others. It represents a singular and narrow way of conceiving of privacy, and it wins by excluding consideration of the other problems often raised with government security measures. When engaged directly, the nothing-to-hide argument can ensnare, for it forces the debate to focus on its narrow understanding of privacy. But when confronted with the plurality of privacy problems implicated by government data collection and use beyond surveillance and disclosure, the nothing-to-hide argument, in the end, has nothing to say.
chronicle.com...
Maybe you should expand your narrow view on privacy. Stop regurgitating media regulated excuses as your own. Think deeper and further about the larger awareness surrounding deprived privacy. It is not un-Australian to want to have privacy. It's normal to want privacy, solitude. Read that article and stop being so close minded.
Originally posted by twisted-timothy
The only thing ASIO does in this country is use thier anti-terrorist powers against Activists and Indigenous Australians. I went to an exhibition of photgraphed ASIO agents spying on activists. Hilarious what my tax money is spent on. Now they want to have power not only to spy BUT INFECT WITH VIRUSES? They want the power to cause malicius damage to hippies computers?