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Can someone please ask the CEO of Mastodon gGmbH to defederate with Threads? I used to know Eugen who ran the instance and could have asked him myself but I don’t know the CEO of Mastodon gGmbH.
@aral
So, it occurred to me last night that it is possible that the Mastodon Organization cannot block or even encourage a block of Threads for the same reason Twitter can't ban them: it could potentially run afoul of anti-competitive laws. Because of this, legally speaking, the best course of action is to let them federate, then make a big public paper trail of the problems associated with federation, and use that as precedent to start limiting interactions. In short, waiting to block may be legally necessary.
That said, realize that everyone who has made the decision not to block has done so after some clear thoughts about it. We are aware that this is a bad actor, and we are aware that we will likely have a moderation scenario the moment they actually federate, assuming they even do. We have weighed that against the cost of preemptively blocking such a large new entrant, and decided to hold off for the moment, and wait until there is an actual problem.
@Raccoon@woxok Mastodon gGmbH is a not for profit and is many, many orders of magnitude smaller than Meta, Inc. Antitrust law doesn’t come into play here in the slightest.
@SpookieRobieTheCat@aral I am surprised how their apps aren't banned in EU. Their every decision is violating users' rights. And when they are legally forced to change, they always do it in the most malicious compliance way possible.
Just got registered with a local GP in Ireland¹ and their first email states that all their staff are “formally trained in GDPR procedures and any information you give will be used in the strictest confidence.”
Their email address is @gmail.com
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¹ This, in and of itself, is a bloody miracle these days, apparently, and only happened because it’s a new practice that’s just opening up.
The W3C – the standards body of surveillance capitalism – on privacy.
If you had any “privacy principles” to speak of, what would Adobe, Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Bloomberg, Google, Huawei, IAB, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, Bilibili, SoftBank, Tencent, Yahoo!, Zoom, etc., be doing on your members list?
@aral not just there. I’ve been in ISO standardization committees that were rendered pointless because of company interference. They don’t want to implement anything they don’t already do, which in this case wasn’t a lot, and would only agree on the lowest common denominator. I got out as quick as I could.
@aral it’s the only place capitalism has left to turn.
When the global north has created the conditions for the global south to pursue the expansionism it ‘profited’ from and, due to the instant mass comms tech it has created, it is much more difficult to continue colonialism openly, the only extraction point left to squeeze is its own people
“The subtlety of it is pretty insidious. Like some kind of distributed long con, played out over and over, in the midst of so many millions of other simultaneous ones.”
Are you a privacy professional? Would you like to work with companies like Google and Facebook to help them continue to violate our privacy? The W3C has a job for you.
Pays well, by the way (violating human rights always does).
Saying put a robots.txt file on your site if you don’t want your work to be abused by corporations for profit is like saying wear a t-shirt listing all the people you don’t want to have sex with if you don’t want them to have sex with you.
To the utter befuddlement of techbro douchebags everywhere, turns out that’s not how consent works.
@aral that is how it works when it’s fair use of publicly available content though. You don’t even need to respect the robots.txt file, legally speaking. Comparing this to rape is disgusting.
@joeldrapper Something is definitely disgusting but I have a feeling it’s not my post. Have a nice life and I hope the corporations reward your fealty.
@aral I first thought this is Aprils fools day because the irony is too high in these principles 😅 only a minority of the 375 members would be in line with these.