People today are suspicious of privacy violations... and for good reason; their privacy has never been more at risk!
Why?
Because people no longer have the mental means to recognise good from evil or truth from deception & lies. They have destroyed their own moral structure which protected them for all of their lives, or, (in the cases of the young), have never developed it, the school and parenting structure have long since been corrupted and dismantled.
The problem with that is that they always trust the greatest violators, (those who have the most money and thus, the best PR to lure the gullible & niave), and they always mistrust their allies.
Sound crazy?
Well, yes.
Yet, that fact is undeniably true.
The Room Upstairs has been around, (in one form or another), since the early/mid 90s and as such, is one of the longest running public/private forums that that actually support/inform the people, in existence.
Most of the content within has been private, (not available to the public), because of sensitive topics and the biggest single reason, bot, (software --today most what they call 'AI', made by big companies), harvesting. Thousands of bots rape sites like this one while consuming far too much of the sparse resources that I have available.
But, as I said, the public have no problem giving, (they do not get paid for this, they actually pay. Don't think so?), their most private and sensitive data to large companies like Meta, (who run Facebook [MugShot Book]), who promptly use it to create profiles of you to anticipate what you will do when they start locking you and yours down, and then sell this data to their buddies all of whom are helping to form a Tyrannical Dictatorship where you will have no rights, no freedom, no property and no say in your own life.
It is hard to believe that anyone would do such a thing, but far too many members of the general public today, have thrown out whatever shreds of common sense that they have left and trip over themselves to see to can self-violate the fastest.
In the meantime, their natural allies, (like TRU/TSFWN), they are scared to death to even create a fake profile/E-mail, (Yep! I track nothing and make no attempt to. And I keep no records of book sales. Zero. Your business is your own here), address to access the forums/categories/boards here.
Once more into the breech I go as I run a publicly open test forum to give it one more shot before I age out; we shall see.
Do not post private or sensitive messages here; I will move them to a closed board if I see them. Just give your post a few minutes thoughts on where it should go beforehand.
The world is about as messed up as can be.
Privacy? The young people have no idea what that is or what the big deal is about.
I feel more than a bit scared about our future.