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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 17:30:53 JST Aral Balkan

   • Fedora Project

   My response to @fedora’s proposal to implement opt-out data collection in Fedora, which was marked as hidden and “flagged as inappropriate: the community feels it is offensive, abusive, to be hateful conduct or a violation of our community guidelines.”

   https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-request-privacy-preserving-telemetry-for-fedora-workstation-system-wide/85320/378

   Posting it here, on a space I own, where it cannot be marked as anything by Fedora/Red Hat/IBM:

   1/N

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 17:32:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Fedora Project

     @fedora “If this is a feature you believe people want, make the toggle switches off by default so folks can excitedly tell you how much they want to send data to Fedora/Red Hat/IBM.

     Also, is this a feature in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

     …”

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     #fedora #surveillance #privacy #ibm #redHat #telemetry

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 17:33:47 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Fedora Project

     @fedora “…If not, and it’s something people will absolutely love, I hope it will be implemented for all your paying enterprise customers also. After all, I’m sure you’d hate for folks to think you believe corporations deserve privacy whereas people don’t. I have no doubt it will go down great with large corporations (they love profiling people so I guess that means they’d love getting profiled too, right? Unless they’re hypocrites, of course).”

     #fedora #privacy #ibm #redHat

     3/3

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 19:28:28 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Fedora Project

     @fedora Update: Looks like my post on Fedora’s forum has been unflagged now.

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     Ceremus (ceremus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 04:59:51 JST Ceremus

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     @aral It definitely still shows up as hidden to me (not a user registered on the site).

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:01:14 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ceremus

     @ceremus Ah, looks like they hid it again.

     Whatever.

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     Fabio Valentini (decathorpe@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 15:06:09 JST Fabio Valentini

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     • Ceremus

     @aral @ceremus Yeah ... this time it was flagged by an actual person, and your post was hidden by a moderator for being "off-topic". I don't understand nor do agree with this assessment, but I don't want to just override another moderator's decision here, either 😐

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 15:06:09 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Fabio Valentini
     • Ceremus

     @decathorpe @ceremus It’s fine. Thanks for trying.

     I won’t waste my time with the forums in the future and just share my thoughts here.