"The first thing a prisoner loses is privacy.

"The first thing a prisoner loses is privacy.
The first thing a free person demands is privacy.

Prisons are designed around the removal of privacy. Open cells. Monitored showers. Recorded phone calls. Supervised visits.
Every moment visible to guards.

Strip someone's privacy and you strip their autonomy. They can't plan. Can't organize. Can't have an unobserved thought that leads to an unmonitored action.

That's not a side effect of incarceration.
That's the point.

Now look at your digital life.

Every transaction recorded. Every message scannable. Every location tracked. Every search indexed. Every connection mapped. Every pattern analyzed.

You live in an open cell.

The key difference between you and a prisoner is the level of awareness. Prisoners know they're being watched.

Freedom isn't the absence of walls. It's the presence of doors you can close. Rooms you control. Spaces where you exist unobserved, unrecorded, unmeasured.

Privacy isn't what guilty people want. It's what free people have.

The distinction tells you everything about which side of the door you're standing on."

-- Darkfi Squad