The future is zero privacy/anonymity.
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Unpopular opinion but future being non-privacy is a good thing. But only if it starts at the top with politicians/media. Think of how many power hungry cops were exposed from cameras. It is overall a net positive (yes, there is not enough punishment for the epstein "glitches" and cops turning it off). Also, that being said, if it starts at the bottom like China, then it sucks.
Police should be filmed but that doesn't mean civilians shouldn't have privacy. Privacy is an inalienable right.
Inside your home sure. In a town square, most of us already gave away privacy to our smartphones, neighbors Ring videos, etc. Unless you're out in farmland.
De-anon twitter will not completely lose your privacy on the internet. Just the potential for most of it (assuming twit gets more popular and sites choose to go with integrated logins and tracking). And trumps or other alternative never take off.
My point is in some year 3000, i can see right to life being considered a more inalienable right than privacy in a (in your view, distopian) town implementing cameras everywhere resulting in a much lower crime rate and a 0-unresolved-crime rate.
"Most of us already did X" is a nonargument. Twitter will turn into a bigger shit sandwich than it already is. Not believing in privacy is antithetical to liberty because public anonymity is essential to spreading truth without fear of retribution.
Of course for now, places like wikileaks still need to exist. I'm just not bought in to the idea that people really find truths on twitter or how lack of privacy on twitter could make that shit sandwich worse. I imagine it primarily removes the bots and glowies. Or at least makes it a little harder for em.