Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Early design review for the Topics API (Issue #726)

@jkarlin Your argument is trying to justify gas burning because coal is worse. When I'm telling you to go nuclear. It's a sort of tu quoque fallacy. The problem is systemic, don't compartment it in pieces to find ad-hoc ways to give incompatible whataboutisms in each case. Surely you must understand that authority directly looking at your device is one situation, which must be fought, a la Apple versus FBI case. But not the one I'm worried about with Topics, that would be remote mass profiling. The surface of attack against individuals just keep being magnified, third party cookies is not a standard of reference, as the brave blog explained.
There are enough NGO to alert about our predicaments, Big Brother Watch, Quadrature du net, Snowden; fictions: black mirror, brave new world... I can't understand how you can willingly be participating in implementing pathways that enable dystopias, instead of pushing for a society with more safety nets against what's coming. Why are you not aiming at tor-like anonymity for all? No cookies, no Topics, fingerprinting jamming, IP spoofing...
Surely you've noticed alt-right horrors becoming mainstream, you must be able to picture what fascists power houses a la 1984 are becoming enabled to do with all the technology that we provide them? Immigration officers are not motivated to take jobs because they have nothing else to do, it's because they love the power to be nationalist right wingers and deny brown skin people entry on fake excuses. In Russia it will be because you have gay topics. In China, because you visited uyghurs activists sites. In Iran because you have feminists interests... They don't have to access any device, they will have your profile on the database, gathered and refined any time you visit an end point controlled by the agencies. The more instruments you provide the more fascist the society veers, the more risk you expose us to citizen scores, unjust incarceration, visa denials, lynching, executions or worse.

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