• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    IMO Snowden said it best; saying I’m against privacy because I have nothing to hide is like saying im against free speech because I have nothing to say.

    It was also (Goebbels?) the Nazis who came up with that phrase.

    Edit: Nazis (sic) came up with the “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” Not the rest!

    Edit2: it was not they who invented it

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      I agree with the first part.

      But just to correct you, Goebbels didn’t say that at any time. (Don’t think the Nazis either)

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        Indeed, the best attribution gives it to Upton Sinclair in 1917 and likely reflected anxieties of WW1, not WW2; Sinclair wasn’t saying it themselves, but attributing it to a government employee. This doesn’t disconnect them, but shows that WW1 was the common factor.

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      My favorite was a bit from the wikipedia entry for “nothing to hide” which was since removed…

      “you have nothing to hide? then pull down your pants and hand me your unlocked phone.”