kyraneko: valtharr:witchaj: katalinathecat: quasi-normalcy: “Commander Vimes didn’t like

kyraneko:

valtharr:

witchaj:

katalinathecat:

quasi-normalcy:

“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.”

–Terry Pratchett, Snuff

That was explained beautifully

“Arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

Would you be okay with the government installing a camera in your shower? You wouldn’t? But why? Got something to hide, terrorist?

Those who would blur the line between privacy and guilt are at best too stupid to be running anything more complex than a paperclip, and at worst doing their damnedest to be Goebbels 2.0, so fuck that.

(Privacy does a LOT of protecting you from the guilty, too, not just the government. There’s a reason the people yarping about having “nothing to hide” aren’t blissfully distributing their email passwords, social security numbers, and where they hide their spare house key. I mean, come ON.)