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I'm glad that sharing that in this thread moved you so. As well as that there are others here that at the very least believe in some type of principals with understanding just how "off" everything is now days. I'm only sorry that I'm just now replying back to you as it's been a little while.
That's really good, also encryption is an absolute must. The more people that refuse a smartphone the better, sadly there will never be enough of us to really validate a "movement" of sorts. But hopefully at the very least the idea will seed itself to another possibly reading this now or in the future along with any other information that they have come across online to take even further initiative for digital privacy awareness. I do the same with learning how things work on the very least a basic level. Ironically knowing more about the functionalities of a smartphone than a hefty majority of users. To hate or avoid something you need to at the very least understand exactly why you are doing so. Sometimes I feel like being interested in technology is a gift and a curse simultaneously. On the subject of your age, that seems to me that it's really the last age group that got to experience life before everything was warped as to understand fundamentally what was going on around them as well.
It was just so ridiculous at the sheer reaction that people had over everything and still continue to in many places with the politicization of covid. There was times I'll admit I thought about wearing a mask just for the privacy. I just didn't want to legitimize things further even appearing to be as you put it part of the cattle farm going along with it. I was already hesitant over vaccines once they were forcing new vaccines to high school students threatening them with not being able to graduate if they didn't receive them. Thinking how fucked up that was and if I had still been in school during all of that I would have just dropped out. Nobody should have the right to force any type of injection of anything inside of you especially with intimidating, threatening, and/or demonizing someone along with it.
Exactly, and I don't believe the whole "I don't have anything to hide" concept is even a matter of anything. It shouldn't even exist. It's just common sense at least to me that everyone is entitled to their own personal privacy. It shouldn't have any type of stigma towards it with people thinking they are "hiding something". Even if someone were hiding something, who cares? That's their privacy to do so. I guess at the very least you do that. I still couldn't personally do it. Where I live there's still a ton of payphones everywhere that are working. There's actually two of them right near my home at each end of my street. I haven't had to use a payphone personally since around 2009 when I had a real emergency a few towns over and was stranded. I will often carry a bit of change on the odd chance I do actually need to use one. But, that hasn't been the case since back then. I also haven't seen anyone using them for a very long time as anyone could guess.