Cory Doctorow on Nostr: These fallacy-ridden autocrats like to disguise their demands as observations, as ...
These fallacy-ridden autocrats like to disguise their demands as observations, as though wanting something to be true was the same as making it true. Think of when #EricSchmidt - then the CEO of Google - dismissed online privacy concerns, stating "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place":
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-dismisses-privacy8/
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