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Digital privacy can be further categorized. We can talk e.g. about **communication privacy** (emails, chat, ...), **data privacy** (cookies, tracking, medical data, ...), **personal privacy** (intimate photos, sexual orientation, ... ), **individual privacy** (identifying information, anonymity, [spam](spam.md), ...) etc. Privacy is also closely related to **[cryptography](cryptography.md)**, as [encryption](encryption.md) is how information can be "protected" against reaching unauthorized entities, and to [free software](free_software.md), as using safe tools with available source code is crucial to avoid malware. Still, to achieve high privacy additional appropriate behavior has to be adopted, e.g. protection against [spyware](spyware.md), using proxies and/or onion routing, turning off browser [cookies](cookie.md), avoiding fingerprinting, avoiding [social networks](social_network.md), avoiding revealing potentially identifying information etc.
**Society is becoming more and more obsessed with privacy and that is EXTREMELY BAD.** It leads to hardcore [censorship](censorship.md), people are hiding their email addresses so it's impossible to contact them, photos of child faces are wiped from the Internet, more and more videos on the internet now just blur everything in the video that's not the main focus of it, "just in case", people are even afraid to credit other people by name even if they are e.g. legally obliged to by a license such as CC-BY-SA ([lmao](lmao.md) https://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19322). Everyone is like OH NOES they gonn steal my personal face pixelzzz, MY FACE IS LIKE MY HOUSE. Such [retardedness](retard.md) has probably never been seen yet.
**Society is becoming more and more obsessed with privacy and that is DISASTROUSLY WRONG.** It leads to unprecedented [censorship](censorship.md), people are hiding their email addresses so it's impossible to reach anyone, photos of child faces are wiped from the Internet, more and more videos on the internet now just blur everything that's not the main focus of it, "just in case", people are even afraid to credit other people by name even if they are literally legally obliged to by a license such as CC-BY-SA ([lmao](lmao.md) https://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19322). Everyone is like OH NOES they gonn steal my personal face pixelzzz, MY FACE IS LIKE MY HOUSE. Such [retardedness](retard.md) is beyond words.
{ Critique of privacy on a similar note: https://archive.li/bRiVs#90%. ~drummyfish }
In addition to all this, increasing "privacy" and anonymity are responsible for **immense [cultural](culture.md) damage** as well. Nowadays we live great portions of our lives online, our interactions and relationships live on the Internet, and as we're covering up more and more of ourselves, we **dehumanize ourselves**. We form relationships with letters on the screen, with no face, body language, age, gender, [race](race.md) or country. People conceal who they are and the insane [identity politics](identity_politics.md) all around only adds fuel to the fire by encouraging us to DENY who we are, to pretend to ACTUALLY be what we WISH to be. There is nothing wrong with wishes and desires, but it's important to acknowledge reality too, even if we're not particularly happy about lack power to change it: a 10 year old girl from Sweden can never see the world through the eyes of a 60 year old man from China, a starving African orphan is not the same kind of human as a rich American university student -- who we physically ARE plays an irreplaceable role in social interactions, feeling emotion, falling in [love](love.md), choosing friends and much more. This all has been removed by ever increasing anonymity, we are severely deprived of humanity, everyone's been reduced to a username. This wasn't always so -- back in the times of old Internet people shared their names and photos and even contact information, it's one of the reasons for why the Internet was so much happier and brighter back then.
**Accepting privacy inevitably comes with accepting pretense**, i.e. if privacy and anonymity is important, we are accepting the fact that people publicly pretend to be something they are not and only under the mask of anonymity will say what they truly think, i.e. we accept that pretense and public lying is normal. That's a completely fucked up mindset which a [good society](less_retarded_society.md) cannot accept. We have to make it so that people can be who they are publicly, that they can say and act publicly as they act in private.
If we [extrapolate](extrapolation.md) the situation into the [future](future.md), we can see where sustaining this will lead. If you go out, you'll always have to wear a full body protective cloak, face mask and, of course, you privacy high heels -- remember, your body proportions and body height are your private data, you don't want to give these away to the cameras lurking outside. You won't be able to talk freely to anyone, not even closest friends and family in complete privacy -- your information is not safe with anyone, anyone can slip or give it away unknowingly, so no, your friends mustn't know your favorite color, names of your pets, number of siblings, your gender, age, that's all too sensitive, a sufficiently smart AI will be able to deduce your password from it, or connect it with other information flying around, catching you into its net. Better minimize talking to your friend about anything at all, better not go outside unless you absolutely must, better stay in your cellar, be anonymous and safe, die happy in the darkness knowing no one knew anything about you, as if you never existed at all.
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"[Right](rights_culture.md) to be forgotten" is the stupidest crap anyone has ever come up with.
**So what now?** Should we just literally dump our passwords, home address, phone number and credit card info online? Of course nowadays this would almost equate [suicide](suicide.md), for most it's not possible or advised to make such a huge leap immediately. Remember, LRS advocates slow evolution towards a better state of affairs, i.e. we should firstly realize that the status quo and current mindset are harmful, secondly we should educate others about it and along the way we should start relaxing our fear of losing privacy slowly. Great philosophers of ancient Greece spoke of an ideal stance towards death and told us to not fear it -- do not seek it but don't fear it either; you may not desire death but at the same time you may also not let it enslave you by making you avoid it at any cost. It's similar with our cause: you don't have to commit suicide, just don't let privacy enslave you anymore. Your goal doesn't have to be to achieve perfection in giving away 100% of your secrets; rather make it a goal to become more free from secrecy, even if perfection can't be achieved. You can probably let your real name, face photo and country of origin be known publicly, there is zero danger in this, and by doing so you free yourself a bit more, cure a bit of that phobia. Later on you will perhaps be able to make further steps such as sharing your autobiography and nude photos -- this is very doable. And perhaps you'll find this freedom so good that you will cancel all your bank accounts and social media and then you can comfortably share even your password to achieve absolute freedom from secrecy.
**So what now?** Should we just literally dump our passwords, home address, phone number and credit card info online? Of course nowadays this would almost equate [suicide](suicide.md), for most it's not possible or advised to make such a huge leap immediately. Remember, LRS advocates slow evolution towards a better state of affairs, i.e. we should firstly realize that the status quo and current mindset are harmful, secondly we should educate others about it and along the way we should start relaxing our fear of losing privacy slowly. Great philosophers of ancient Greece spoke of an ideal stance towards death and told us to not fear it -- do not seek it but don't fear it either; you may not desire death but at the same time you may also not let it enslave you by making you avoid it at any cost. It's similar with our cause: you don't have to commit suicide, just don't let privacy enslave you anymore. Your goal doesn't have to be to achieve perfection in giving away 100% of your secrets; rather make it a goal to become more free from secrecy, even if perfection can't be achieved. You can probably let your real name, face photo and country of origin be known publicly, there is zero danger in this, and by doing so you free yourself a bit more, cure a bit of that phobia. Later on you will perhaps be able to make further steps such as sharing your autobiography and nude photos -- this is very doable. And perhaps you'll find this freedom so good that you will cancel all your bank accounts and social media and then you can comfortably share even your password to achieve absolute freedom from secrecy.
## See Also
- [security](security.md)