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by suizi 6y ago
Murdoch's investigators illegally wiretapped anyone they could to get a scoop, including a murdered child. The process of doing so made it look like she was reading the messages and still alive.
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by suizi 6y ago
If a government is capable of abusing a capability, they can and will. The simple existence of cameras to monitor people is a threat.
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by suizi 6y ago
"require a verified email address to gain the exit or guard relay flag" Getting fresh emails is incredibly easy.
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by suizi 6y ago
More people are spending more time at home and all internet usage increases accordingly.
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by suizi 6y ago
Authoritarian regimes are often far less technologically advanced than free countries. They will often import technology from free countries and be constrained by whatever freedom respecting decisions they've made.
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by suizi 6y ago
As much as I don't like Epstein's network, it is better for him to go free than to live in an authoritarian state with locked down protocols which control what someone can and can't do. Someone like Epstein could easily commu
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by suizi 6y ago
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/2019-05-31-sex-lies-and-surveillan... I don't trust Thorn.
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by suizi 6y ago
Even if it worked, I wouldn't want the government scanning through data for whatever they decided was subversive or suspicious through undefined filters and unaccountable agencies.
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by suizi 6y ago
Mastodon leads to centralisation. If a Mastodon server shuts down one day and everyone on it loses their accounts, they're likely to gather around one centralised set of servers. There is a circle of trust too. For instance, the server
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by suizi 6y ago
In the office or out of the office on social media?
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by suizi 6y ago
Some people have lost their jobs over a tweet. Rich people and celebrities are the most visible but it isn't as if little people haven't been swept up on occasion.
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by suizi 6y ago
Allowing one type of speech over others could be attacked by enemies as being "supportive" of those viewpoints as by your own decision you find it to be "reasonable" enough to fit within the boundaries of free speech.
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by suizi 6y ago
This level of access horrifies me and in more than one way. We should be limiting what people can do, and not giving them the keys to the kingdom.
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by suizi 6y ago
"I forgot my password, please reset it for me."
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by suizi 6y ago
Emails are overrated as an anti-troll measure. Anyone can make a trash mail in seconds.
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by suizi 6y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905383/twitter-phone-nu... Twitter caught using phone numbers for marketing purposes.
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by suizi 6y ago
What if you're an activist and your government _is_ the enemy?
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by suizi 6y ago
The biggest problem is we've allowed them to become so big they're capable of doing that. The rise of censor culture hasn't helped and is heaped on by advertisers and the media.
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by suizi 6y ago
GDPR is "supposed" to hold companies responsible for breaches and bad access controls. This is a different beast than liability protection for content.
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by suizi 6y ago
If you're banning thousands of people, deleting thousands of tweets and updating thousands of people as routine (customer support), it might take time for someone to review what you're doing.
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by suizi 6y ago
Like when they used mobile phone numbers given for security purposes for marketing?
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by suizi 6y ago
I don't agree with the impingements on rights done by China, the U.S. or any other country on this globe. Authoritarianism should be challenged where ever it appears and in whatever form it takes.
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by suizi 6y ago
The visible is usually the tip of the iceberg.
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by suizi 6y ago
I'm not holding out hope for anything meaningful to come of this but big thanks to the court for standing up against mass-surveillance.
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by suizi 6y ago
I'm more concerned about the U.S. spying on me. I don't like China spying on me either but people take that one seriously.
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by suizi 6y ago
Facebook buys out their competitors.
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by suizi 6y ago
Relevant: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/new-earn-it-bill-still...
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by suizi 6y ago
I don't think it is the real problem. It is a problem in the sense that it is disgusting but it isn't worth destroying a free society over and I don't think it is possible to stop. What you can crackdown on are the producers.
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by suizi 6y ago
At that point, you're playing world police. Other countries can take care of their own problems.
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by suizi 6y ago
What if they wanted to deflect attention from themselves to large numbers of relatively minor criminals?

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