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I think you're being just a bit disingenuous, but I somewhat agree with the message, if not the spirit, of what you're saying. What we should be banning is beh
by idiotsecant 4y ago
I think you're being just a bit disingenuous, but I somewhat agree with the message, if not the spirit, of what you're saying.
What we should be banning is behavior, not authorship. Does the application retrieve user data? What data? Is that retrieval bad and user hostile? Ban that behavior. Does the application do something else bad? Ban that behavior. Banning something simply because it's controlled by a government we don't like is a bad precedent. We should do the work to describe what specifically the application is doing that we don't like and address that, because it would also have the effect of applying consumer-friendly laws to all the others apps doing that as well with the goal of making ad revenue and not just collecting information for a hostile government.
- falcolas 4y agoI believe the issue is that were we to ban based solely on behavior and not country of origin, we'd have to ban every single social network in existence right now. And probably many, if not most traditional media outlets too. Maybe a few hundred other ad and personal information sales supported applications. There are very few good actors on the internet today, when you evaluate them based on the behaviors you mention.
- idiotsecant 4y agoYes, that's precisely my point. If we care about preventing bad behaviors lets prevent bad behaviors . We would all benefit. The answer to bad behavior being pervasive is not to throw up your hands and just pick special cases to ban, it's to fix the behavior.