Comment on Privacy is ‘the most valuable right of all’, says Signal’s president.

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are two types of rights:

  • negative - government prevents others from violating it (you have it by default)
  • positive - government forces others to provide it (created by the government)

  Privacy and speech fall under the first, food and health care fall under the second. You have privacy by default and the government has to actively violate it, you don’t have food by default and the government has to actively provide it.

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