“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to 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.”
Snowden is not a paragon of privacy morality one should seek to emulate; his actions are incredibly hypocritical to pretend to care about privacy after invading everyone else’s privacy, then bouncing to a hostile foreign nation.
Instead, a quote like this would do:
Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to 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.”
That’s very quotable.
The Reddit topic in the screenshot is just as quotable and directly points at the root of the problem:
“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.”
I’m not worried about the people who choose to close their window shades, I’m worried about the people who apparently need to peek through them.
Wish it was shorter though.
Snowden is not a paragon of privacy morality one should seek to emulate; his actions are incredibly hypocritical to pretend to care about privacy after invading everyone else’s privacy, then bouncing to a hostile foreign nation.
Instead, a quote like this would do:
Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century