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If I may paint with a broad brush for a moment, it is cute watching the coasties--who derive a great percentage of their regional GDP from an all-out assault on the privacy of damn near everyone in the civilized world (adtech, analytics, finance [credit scores / front-running trades], e-commerce, "data science" [analyzing the shit out of all those privacy violations], AI [don't get me started])--go into meltdown over the loss of a "right to privacy" that was imagined into the Constitution in the first place.

I don't have strong opinions about abortion or a Constitutional right to privacy (real or imagined). I just suffocate on the hypocrisy of these people.



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