Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.
Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?
Except where actual safety is concerned, all information should be public. That means Individuals, businesses, authorities, governments, etc, should not be able to hold any information privately, it should all be freely available to everyone. There only private information is what you can hold in your head.
Anyone who thinks about this idea for more than 30 seconds decides it is a really bad idea. I honestly believe that true information freedom will also free the human race, and that is the unpopular part. Everyone seemed to think I’m naive but people are just frightened kids and secrets are their first line of defense.
This is unpopular? Sad noises
My health records don’t pose a safety concern, but they still arent yours or anyone elses fucking business.
No, Because people are entitled to privacy.
And I guaran-fuckin-tee theres something in your life that if someone started blabbing, and you were told to get over it, you’d lose your fucking shit over.
no, you’re just a sociopath.
Would you share your internet history and text messages with your boss and co workers? With all your family? With us in this thread?
No, they wouldn’t
Anyone who thinks about this idea for more than 30 seconds decides it is a really bad idea
That’s because of all the problems your idea would cause. Identity theft would run rampant, stalking would become easier than ever before, tracking people down would just be one search, etc. I mean you truly did bring up an unpopular opinion, I’ll give you that.
Do you have curtains on your windows?
Private ≠ secret.
Other people have pointed out more types of information that has good reason to be confidential, but we should also acknowledge it would be a huge investment of effort to do something like this. Organizing, storing, updating, and sifting through all this information when it would so rarely be useful is already too much effort for the benefit even disregarding other concerns.
Thanks for the unpopular opinion though, it is an interesting change to consider as a thought experiment.
If this happened due to suddenly everyone being able to read each others thoughts unfiltered and without the ability to block others out from your own, it would be amazing. However power corrupts and I don’t think there is an utopian situation where abuse would not happen in a society where information is given up voluntarily.
Yeah, I think you’re naive.
I grew up in an abusive home where the very people who were supposed to be closest to me and love me the most would take completely benign things and weaponize them.
Once you’ve seen someone take genuinely, truly innocent things and use them to brutalize you as severely as if you were actually doing wrong, you realize the rest of humanity–who mostly have fewer ties to you than blood family–can easily do that too.
A world where you have to have everything hanging in the open hands weapons to those who are sociopathic enough to see that system and immediately game it for their own self-benefit.
