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BugsJustFindMe | 15 days ago
You're straw-manning here. The issue isn't privacy in a vacuum. The issue is very directly privacy in the context of the current US government being undeniably and intentionally malicious in a way that few countries anywhere in the world currently are. @YeGoblynQueenne indicates as much by saying "At the very least, in an EU country (and also the UK) you can ...".
The US government currently doesn't give a shit about the law or human rights in ways that are both completely unprecedented and very violent. People have concrete reason to fear the US government right now. That's what the article is about, not merely privacy on its own.
> There are many countries now that don't require a passport to enter - you can simply get a facial scan.
Name all the ones that violently assault and kill people in the street and imprison people for weeks or months or even years without formal charges and ignore court orders to release people who are being illegally imprisoned and then only later comply with the law after injurious delays with the most malicious interpretations if ever.
refurb|13 days ago
I'm not sure you know what "strawmanning" is.
You're making extraordinary claims with no evidence. That seems more like strawmanning.
> Name all the ones that violently assault and kill people in the street and imprison people for weeks or months or even years without formal charges
Huh? If you're talking about enforcing immigration laws, they all do. It's the US that is the odd outlier that doesn't enforce immigration laws.
BugsJustFindMe|12 days ago
It's very clear that you don't converse honestly in good faith when you choose to draw a false equivalence between "violently assault and kill people in the street and imprison people for weeks or months or even years without formal charges" and a mealy-mouthed "enforcing immigration laws". We're done here.