I think the first time I mentioned digital surveillance being used to target women seeking abortions in NYT was 2014? 2012?

“Serious” people literally mocked us for raising the possibility. Privacy advocates were mocked as alarmist luddites for a long time.

Well, here we are. https://t.co/llbmJgivRw

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) June 24, 2022

I remember those days. I also remember being personally mocked and banned from a forum in 1998 for saying the DMCA would inevitably be used by corporations to prevent people from repairing physical objects.

Most people have the imagination of a tree stump.