MonAlternatiu

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by MonAlternatiu 6y ago
It would be awesome if the users were forced to navigate a settings menu, find the app on a list of apps, and manually enable the option. One can only dream.
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by MonAlternatiu 6y ago
> If your friends will abandon you just because you’re not on social media anymore That's a very binary view of the world that I don't share. But that's not a topic I want to get into. Can you keep in touch with a certain
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by MonAlternatiu 6y ago
A lot of my friends use social media to stay in touch. Not being on social media would keep me out of the loop, which is not desirable. I try to restrict its usage as much as possible though.
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by MonAlternatiu 6y ago
The article has precisely that prompt in one of the images. The thing is, just like certain apps require certain permissions (camera app wants to access the camera, device files, etc..) I believe a lot of people will just accept these condi
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by MonAlternatiu 6y ago
> and the 'we care for your privacy' message disappears with it I don't think so. The actions behind the words will disappear for sure, but not the message itself
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by MonAlternatiu 6y ago
> The best and only way to defend and nurture it is education. Teach people to think for themselves, critical reading,logic and analysis. This is the best inoculation against totalitarianism. I agree that education is one of the best way
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by MonAlternatiu 6y ago
Many reasons. - For one when a news article is incorrect it is very easy to hold accountable the source of that information. How many people keep track of who said what on the internet? - Fake Information takes more time to respond to than
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by MonAlternatiu 6y ago
I am creating a new account just for this: Social Media is the source of a lot of misinformation and there is no way to fix it other than reducing its usage. Social Media increases information availability and by its very nature will alw