I'm fine to agree to disagree, as long as you don't tell me to "get over" losing my rights and freedoms. That isn't just an opinion - it is an attack.

As for who I am, that you should care at all that I disagreed: I am the man who you know nothing about, yet about whom you proclaim, unbidden, in a public place, is a man who doesn't even understand his own liberties. I am the man who you basically told to settle down and shut up about it. It does behoove you to take my reaction into consideration.

In fact, let me go into "why", since you seem to me to be a man who values integrity. I probably shouldn't have chimed in at all on this thread, but I have the right to and it looked amusing, so I did. I don't think you attacked my knowledge as a deliberate choice, but just a random post to reply to. The only reason I responded at all is that in my position I literally cannot afford to have my knowledge of or my regard for data privacy denigrated that way in public. You have no idea what I do professionally, and I literally did not inject myself into the debate you engaged here. Let's leave it at that.