Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?

garbage_world@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TWeaK@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean he did coin/popularise the phrase “Saying you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

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  • garbage_world@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hate this phrase. I mean, it ain’t false, but this argument has the same logic as if I would say: “Saying grass is green is like saying sky is blue”.

    This phrase cleaverly relates 2 unrealted things to manipulate the recipient.

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    • TWeaK@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The clever part is drawing the parallel between two unrelated things, to draw on the recipient’s emotions about one of them and entice them to compare why they feel differently about the other.

      Somewhat manipulative, perhaps, but only in the way that explaining things manipulates someone into understanding.

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