• XLE@piefed.social
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    7 hours ago

    “Monitoring pedophiles in my area is probably a good thing. Wait, monitoring myself? Isn’t that my choice? Wait, now protestors? That’s bad, usually… Wait, graffiti artists? Well some of… Wait, women?”

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      4 hours ago

      But that’s the point of the ad, to convey that surveillance of a specific group of people will sooner or later be exploited to monitor anyone, no matter their involvement. Therefore you should invest in a VPN.

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        3 hours ago

        But the question is, are you translating it that way because you know what they were trying to convey, or because they actually conveyed it that way? Because the average person is going to just see good thing, bad thing, good thing, bad thing.

        And would you expect the average person to parse it correctly within the time it aired?