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[–] Mongolera [S] ago 

Oh, I agree with that sentiment, and that's why I do imply strategies such as VPN's, educate myself on what parts of the software I use are sketchy and try to tell others about the dangers of carelessly using the internet, to name a few things. However, what you are saying is actually a well thought out piece while most of the posts/replies I am talking about are something in the lines of this (with my flavoring included to make a point):

Random dude from Czech used wireshark on W10, sends info to telemetry.windows.com Ok, so what was send? What settings were used? Is this test replicate? Windows 10 is the Orwellian future that awaits us! Um, ok, reasoning behind this? Why are people still so stupid to use Windows!? Really? do you have no ability to at least comprehend the different needs and requirements from users? Not every company will just use FOSS for different reasons, among which liability, training costs and laziness

So what I was going at was the tone of the 'debate'. Not the debate itself. I think it would be a great idea if there would be discussions on the usage, necessity and dangers of modern technology because it will have an impact on our social structures and understanding of ethics like nothing has before, but here it is mostly a circlejerk with a lot of namedropping and competitions on voicing an extreme (populist) opinion.

Oh, one reply that I read even went something like this:

Systemd is a known NSA backdoor, so do not use distro's that are dependent of it.

Whether true or false, it was yet another 'cool conspiracy' thing to shout out in my opinion. But anyway, enough of my jazz :P