I agree with the principle but frankly it doesn't apply here. Privacy conscious people have been sounding the alarm about these devices since their invention and the overwhelming majority of consumers typically respond to those warnings with dismissal or ridicule.

There's only so much sympathy and support and standing up for others that I can fit into any given day and I'd rather give it to people who weren't warned about the dangers beforehand.

You probably overestimate how loud are these "Privacy conscious people". I bet if you ask ordinary Joe about privacy concerns with voice assistant devices, he'd tell he had no clue.

I'm just extrapolating from my own experience of telling people about various privacy concerns. 99% of the time it's either "I don't care", "I have nothing to hide", or "you're being paranoid".

> I bet if you ask ordinary Joe about privacy concerns with voice assistant devices, he'd tell he had no clue.

Because Ordinary Joe is willfully ignorant, not because no one was shouting about privacy concerns.

It’s still much more productive to fight the abuser than it is to fight the victims.

Nobody is fighting the victims here.

I would say it's natural for people to feel empathy towards others, especially those to whom an injustice was done. If you go out of your way to justify not showing empathy and write comments about it, you are spending energy fighting our natural compassion. That is how I see it.

I probably didn't phrase it well, but the core idea is to spend effort on those who cause injustice, not those who suffer.