RightEdofer

joined 11 months ago
[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Social media has been around a long time. It is not reasonable to expect people to think of technology they can’t imagine even existing ten years in the future when “consenting” to use a platform. Legally you are correct. Morally this is obviously terrible. Everything about how terms and conditions are communicated is designed to take advantage of people who won’t or are unable to parse its meaning. Consent needs to be informed.

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

The real DNA negates a lot of that unfortunately. If any family member also used the service they can use that to triangulate your identity.

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, both here and on Reddit I see more of that blind faith for Google and Microsoft. It’s so weird that the open-source community has a slice of people insisting their giant company is somehow virtuous because it’s slightly less fashionable. Even weirder when they write paragraph’s psychoanalyzing imaginary people.

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Wow that’s naive.

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Google’s ad network and YouTube are pushing the agenda more than pretty much everyone.

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

So far so good though Shopify being a major sponsor makes me doubt their long term direction.

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah they need an angel like Max.

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

Wait till you find out about the internet and social media (including here).

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Your proposal is equivalent to just letting bots completely control the internet. It kills it. We either want an internet or we don’t.

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That hasn’t been true for a long time. Filtering bots has increasingly become more difficult, expensive, and sophisticated. Not to mention that there are still plenty of state sponsored bad actors using real people and hybrid approaches.

[–] RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You think the current US would stop at Canada and Mexico?

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