In the world we are moonwalking towards, how can one express a political viewpoint (and remember, everything is political) whilst not experiencing the fear of reprecussions, or them truly happening (losing a job, being set aside, violence including potentially fatal, etc)?

I ask them for their banking or social media passwords. Then use the exact same arguments back at them.

Tell them you regularly hide your disgust for people that trade privacy for convenience behind polite disdain.

That they underestimate how much they have to hide. I know a few that actually have much more to hide than me.

People project. A lot.

People who do shit like this are usually the ones who have something to hide, and throw out the guilt by casting blame/suspicion on others.

Every cheater/liar/bastards I ever knew, always was 'vigilant' about enforcing the rules and making big public declarations about how people who do that are horrible and they'd never do it. And they always did.

The people who have shit to hide are the ones who go around being hostile and accusatory to others.

"I like to close the bathroom door when I'm taking a shower. Doesn't mean I'm doing anything immoral in there. I'm just entitled to privacy."

They can extrapolate from there if they've got two brain cells to rub together.

Privacy is important because laws and "normal" can change. What might be normal and legal today, could become illegal someday. Then suddenly all your data that used to describe you as a boring normal person, now describes you as a "domestic terrorist"

In what context?

edit: in that case I'd say "Yeah, I do!".

I think of those people the same way they think of me when I say “what’s that? Is that a sports team? I don’t care about any of that.”

Well shit, now you're in a list.

I do not understand how the [American] people in my life that say this are the same people who thought Biden et al were the ones who were going to imprison people for beliefs. I'm lying. Of course I get it. The surveillance state is currently (appearing to) work for them because it's The Others^TM that are getting hurt.

It doesn't really fix anything or change anyone's mind, but I have to find some amusement, right? That group overlaps with Cloud-based doorbell camera usage. "what's the name of your wifi? I mean there's only 4 in range and _____ is the strongest, so probably that, right?.... No I don't need the password. I wanna see something. Can you to bring this doorbell to the shower with you?"

I don't think I'm evil for arguing against the surveillance state.

I also can't do shit with their camera.

I have nothing I want to put on display. Who's more suspicious, the one keeping his curtains closed, or the ones insisting I keep them open so they can peek in.

Also, during a more philosophical discussion on a similar topic, I found myself saying that I cannot guarantee that any legal stuff I do today will stay legal, and I don't trust any government to not retroactively criminalize something they have me on the logs for.

I used to be one in my stupid youth. I was so naive. So I tell them they're naive and there's no such thing as fair trial.