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tonystark · 3915 days ago · link · · parent · post: I opted my kids out of standardized tests. Then I learned a thing or two.
I remember a talk about privacy and surveillance where the speaker was saying something like this about mobile phones. He asked the audience how many would willingly carry around a tracking device on their person and nobody raised their hand, then he asked them how many of them has a mobile phone and all of them raised their hand. He then said that whats really happening is, the system is making our choices have a wider impact such that, the choice of having a mobile phone or not is turned into a more complex choice of effectively participating in society or not. He mentioned many other examples like google analytics and how our choices were framed in such ways that it makes it harder to opt out.