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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1269<br />
| date = September 25, 2013<br />
| title = Privacy Opinions<br />
| image = privacy opinions.png<br />
| titletext = I'm the Philosopher until someone hands me a burrito.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
Randall Munroe is ideologically and emotionally invested in the president he voted for, and wields his intellectual influence over his audience to convince them to become indifferent to human rights violations of the United States Government, summoning various apologist platitudes to do so. The title text reveals Randall is looking to redefine the concept of privacy as one particularly shameful way to absolve Barack Obama, James Clapper and Keith Alexander from responsibility.<br />
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Fight the power. Fuck the apologists.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:'''Opinions on Internet Privacy'''<br />
:The Philosopher:<br />
::Megan: "Privacy" is an impractical way to think about data in a digital world so unlike the one in which our soci--<br />
::Ponytail: ''' ''So bored.'' '''<br />
:The Crypto Nut:<br />
::Cueball: My data is safe behind six layers of symmetric and public-key algorithms.<br />
::Friend: What data is it?<br />
::Cueball: Mostly me emailing with people about cryptography.<br />
:The Conspiracist:<br />
::Cueball talks to Megan.<br />
::Cueball: These leaks are just the tip of the iceberg. There's a warehouse in Utah where the NSA has the ''entire'' iceberg. I don't know how they got it there.<br />
:The Nihilist:<br />
::Megan: Joke's on them, gathering all this data on me as if anything I do means anything.<br />
:The Exhibitionist:<br />
::Cueball is watching a surveillance console, Ponytail stands behind him.<br />
::Console: ''Mmmm,'' I sure hope the NSA isn't watching me bite into these juicy strawberries!! ''Oops,'' I dripped some on my shirt! Better take it off. Google, are you there? Google, this lotion feels soooo good.<br />
::Cueball: Um.<br />
:The Sage:<br />
::Beret Guy and Cueball sitting at a table.<br />
::Beret Guy: I don't know or care what data ''anyone'' has about me. Data is imaginary. This burrito is real.<br />
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