MotoAsh

rofl you offer no evidence, only insults. Yore a pathetic joke and you’re trying to make it my problem. Move along, loser.

My comment wasn’t about how open or closed VPNs are, you fucking moron. It was about how they’re not a silver bullet for protecting privacy.

You easilly offended weirdos are so hilarious. Your paper thin skin won’t help you in life.

I’m definitely not against charging for enterprise class support, but the tipping point for me was requiring an account to even use it. Absolute trash behavior (I’m sure pushed by IBM).

lol yes, make money selling free software… How … innovative… You must enjoy the taste of dick in the morning.

Selling out, regardless of “darling” status, is beyond a bitch move.

Do you think you’re cooking with that? Do you not realize how pathetic you sound?

rofl no. How dumb. Just… purely dumb. Do you think Red Hat was the first and only distro? Do you not know the ENTIRE HISTORY of Linux? Genuinely, you suck.

I know this might be unpopular, but FUCK Red Hat trying to make Linux a commercialized product. Especially their lockdown of the entire package manager et. al…

That’s literally not how VPNs work nor are you aware of what you’re talking about.

Using a VPN does absolutely nothing to protect from their apps scraping up and phoning home telemetry.

It’s still YOUR phone. It’s still YOUR GPS location. It’s still YOUR data connection. A VPN is not a catch-all solution to privacy.

Good luck with that on anything that has a locked boot loader or stock OS.

Depends what you mean by, “enjoy capitalism”.

Enjoy being able to buy what ever you can afford even if it’s something silly that you don’t really need? Sure. Also wholly possible under many other economic systems, because “capitalism” is not simply using money.

Enjoy it in that you enjoy stealing value from employees and getting unjustly rich off of their labor?

Not so much.

The Cathars were a sect of Christianity that (at least some sects) believed God was the bad guy and mortal existence was actually punishment or otherwise bad, too.

I’m sure you can guess what happened to them.

lol well… not exactly what I meant, but OK.

You do point at yet another problem with the idea, though: Not all “unpopular” opinions are bad opinions, and exposing everything for judgement all the time would only further promote same-think under capitalism.

Oh I’m not sorry for their consequences. That doesn’t make removing all privacy a good idea.

Though think of privacy as offering a feeling of safety. We wouldn’t know they literally said they love Hitler if they wouldn’t have felt safe enough to voice it. They didn’t think it WOULD be leaked. They just knew their opinion was gross to the mainstream.

I’m SURE you have said many things the mainstream would call gross. Maybe not necessarily hateful and vile ontop of that, but gross and ostracizing worthy to some none the less. Would you be OK with people ostracizing you for less than what they’ve said?

Would you have said/done those things if you knew it could be looked up by your name?

It’s by definition not private if others can just look it up. I’d say no. Nobody deserves to be judged by their employer or others for EVERYTHING they do or say. Everybody has a bad day sometimes. Everyone gets really annoyed and says mean stuff.

Furthermore, privacy has profound mental health implications. People that cannot get privacy develop mental disorders like paranoia, anxiety, self-doubt, and all sorts of other problems.

On top of that, if they knew their messages could’ve been leaked… do you think they would’ve said it in the first place? They WOULD be thinking it, but you wouldn’t know.

Invading everyone’s privacy because you don’t want to have to exercise your brain is a terrible thing to ask. To those of us that do know how to observe and think, it’s pretty damn obvious when someone is a pile of crap like these people. Removing ALL privacy just so dummies can agree is… one of the worst possible reasons to remove privacy.

Only in some denominations, but the fact anyone believes that is very telling as to what religion does to someones’ mind.

My comment is not about EVERY religous person. Just the pearl-clutching weirdos who get offended at hearing atheists exist and don’t believe.

Sure, there is some wisdom, but it’s buried in mistranslation and mixed with recorded history that’s also been through the mistranslation process.

I have no respect for people who think they have greater knowledge by misinterpreting and projecting their feelings on to such corrupted text.

“… to a certain point”

Yes thank you for agreeing that money DOES improve happiness.

Nowhere did I say they were the same.

Congratulations, you’ve utterly and completely missed the point about how money creates ample room for happiness. Whereas not having money creates stress and awful situations.

Again, congratulations on completely and utterly missing the point.