A few days back I watched a SomeOrdinaryGamers video, in which he states to drive a Tesla car, despite expressing the obvious privacy concerns surrounding the built-in camera system; but doesn’t seem to consider the privacy-impact to those around the vehicle, he chooses to drive through public streets. And another example being Rob Braxman, while ironically, both known to frequently criticize other public-facing, internet connected surveillance systems (like Ring for example).

If it was “just” a cabin camera, staring you straight in the face every time you drive your car (and you’re somehow okay with that), it would still be a terrible look in context with your channel content, but at least it is contained to you personally. But knowingly driving these surveillance nightmares on wheels through public streets, subjecting others to that surveillance, while you represent pro-privacy channels online, is just inexcusably hypocritical to me. But perhaps it might just be me, so what are your thoughts?

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    I’ve been following their content pretty closely, and I do not recall anything of that sort. They did recommend iPhone over stock Android, which is accurate.

    So until you can produce a source to that claim, I call horseshit.

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      i stopped following him after he said it.

      i’m not about to go digging into years of his stuff just so you don’t have to.

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          thankfully i don’t see anything in the rules that say i have to source every inane comment i make here to appease your fondness of a specific youtuber.

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            The rules of rational discourse are centuries old. But if you need them spelled out once more, here they are: If you claim shit, you back it up with evidence. If you can’t or find weird excuses why you shouldn’t have to, people will legitimately call you out on making shit up.

            Case in point: I think you made a case for torturing fluffy little ducklings with red-hot pokers in the past. You’re a bad person for doing so. I can’t find a source right now that proves you did it, but I’m sure it’s somewhere in your post history. So unless you prove you didn’t say that (which is impossible, btw), I expect you and everyone else here to accept my claim as true.

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                and even if you do give them a source, they just reject it because it doesn’t come from a propaganda mouthpiece.

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                  18 hours ago

                  seriously. i’m not about to dig through years of a channel that posts daily so i can appease some rando on the internet on an inconsequential topic.

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                    Also you didn’t even say that Techlore definitely 100% said that, you asked “isn’t techlore the one who said iphones are better for privacy than even linux computers?” and the redditor could answer “He didn’t you are remembering it wrong/Yeah he is the one who said that/I don’t know”