Evening /g/entoomen, I'm writing my term paper for my rhetoric class on internet privacy. The format of the essay is a rogerian argument for a problem / solution, problem being large scale identifiable data collection by companies and the government. I'm going to be assuming my audience is the average normie saying "I'm not doing anything wrong, why should I care if [BOTNET] is watching me?" and I have to construct the argument in a way to convince them that it really is an issue they should care about.
Ideas? Sources? How would you go about explaining to a normie why they should care about internet privacy?
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>>60202562
The way to explain internet privacy to normies is to use analogies with real life privacy. Explain to them why privacy in itself is valuable, why violations of privacy are immoral and should be discouraged and, in some cases, outlawed. However, dont turn it into some FOSS shillfest, since that is beyond the scope of your argument (and not the final solution anyway, since the problem is that companies arent held accountable for violation of privacy/freedom).
And be sure to not sound like a conspiracy theorist. Google is most likely not selling your info to Israel or ISIS, but using it to advertise certain products. The problem is not mainly on the ways they use your info, but the fact that they use it at all.
I dont know sources, maybe some of Stallman's bullshit, but some academic articles on the right to privacy as such is useful.
>>60203027
Thanks for the thought out response anon.
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>>60203402
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