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Well, you can try that out right now: Hook up a 24h video/audio feed to your phone, then share it with your wife, ex, parents, friends, co-workers, boss and the annoying uncle from Utah that you're obligated to invite to Christmas. Also give them full access to your browsing history, messengers, purchase history and location data. Then come back to us in a month and tell us how it all worked out.

Really, no, I think this is a fundamentally bad idea. The idea of everyone surveiling everyone else can only be remotely appealing if you pretend there are no power differences in the world and everyone is equal - a fiction that the tech works for whatever reason loves to subscribe to.

In the real world, people will have vastly different amounts of understanding for whatever weird sides you have and their knowledge can have serious consequences. Only because your boss may have some weird sides himself does not necessarily mean that he will be understanding of yours - or that whatever he did will be as equally relevant as what you did.



It's a bad idea because your wife, ex, parents, friends, co-workers, boss and the annoying uncle from Utah aren't also doing it.

If everyone else in the world is doing it too, things would be radically different.

Also, how does the power differential not actually equalize? If a cashier at McDonalds can see everything Jeff Bezos does, and Jeff Bezos can see everything the homeless person does, you really think Jeff Bezos is the one getting the better end of the deal?




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