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> You would let someone observe you taking a shit in return for a free roll of tissue paper? This is wrong.

Holy slippery slope, Batman! There are plenty of reasonable arguments against Facebook, Gmail, etc etc. You went straight past all of them into tinfoil-hat territory without a second glance.

Arguments about surveillance cameras, free toilet paper, and other nonsense have absolutely no place in discussions about privacy on the web. None.



Actually, when someone equates giving up privacy to a simple monetary transaction, I think it's right calling that out as wrong.


If you say so.




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