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  "path": "/t/do-you-regularly-pay-for-any-privacy-enhancing-tools/37524?page=3#post_49",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-17T05:23:07.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I think you are confusing two things. The existence of the right to privacy vs the specific expression or way someone exercises that right.\n\nYou do not have to pay for the _right of privacy._ But you may have to pay for how you express or use that right.\n\nThe ultimate privacy is to just be offline. That is free. Similarly I could exercise my right of free speech by holding a sign in my front yard. That’s free too.\n\nBut if I want an email service to use, which requires programmers and servers, for exercising my privacy right; then I need to pay for that.\n\nSimilarly if I want to exercise my free speech right by attending a protest in another city I need to pay for my transportation to get there. I’m not owed gasoline or a plane ticket. Just like no one is owed a VPN.",
  "title": "Do you regularly pay for any privacy-enhancing tools?"
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