Elias Mårtenson
Oh my lord. Gruber is really doubling down on his defence of Facebook using the argument of "how dare you tell me I have to stop robbing banks? How else can I preserve these profits?". Along with a sprinkle of not understanding that the DMS only applies to large dominant companies.
Did anyone write a good rebuttal to this yet? I need something to clean the bad taste from my mouth.
Ian Betteridge
@tfb @loke Lord help me, I ended up writing something.
https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/04/19/what-a-difference-four-years-makes/
Thomas
@loke @ianbetteridge The idea that data protection is something people should have a right to have, for free, is certainly at odds with his belief that Apple is selling a right to privacy with their products (and that this is a good thing)
Elias Mårtenson
@tfb @ianbetteridge reading this post, https://social.bund.de/@DS_Stiftung/112291597780354201
I note the following quote:
take care at all times to avoid transforming the fundamental right to data protection into a feature that individuals have to pay to enjoy
This fact is probably completely foreign to anperson raised in a place where you can't even get the healthcare you need without paying to enjoy it
Elias Mårtenson
@tfb I'm not sure I need to attribute his actions to him running the errands of the government. Regardless of reasons, it's clear that he's set out on a crusade against big bad EU. This is exactly in line with the unusually frank statements from Apple.
I think he's supporting Facebook here based on the My enemy's enemy is my friend idea.
He really needs to emphasise how the EU is being bad, to the point of completely ignoring facts that he is clearly aware of (because it was pointed out by that fantastic article by @ianbetteridge ) just because it helps the fiction that the EU is doing this to support European businesses.
Thomas
@loke Completely unsurprising, honestly. Since it became clear that Facebook/Meta are a key bit of the US military spy apparatus, he's gotten behind their "targeting". He's a pretty hardcore militarist right-wing Democratic Party shill, after all.
jimray
@tantramar @ianbetteridge @tfb @loke I’m not a regular Talk Show listener but did listen to an episode with @anildash a while back and I could see glimmers of the old Daring Fireball.
Anil Dash
@jimray @tantramar @ianbetteridge @tfb @loke yeah I think John is at least still willing to engage honestly with people who favor regulation, but certainly that cohort is surrounded by VC-style extremism around demonizing laws.
Christopher Mackay 🇨🇦
@ianbetteridge @jimray @tfb @loke I’m tempted to wonder if it’s just that they’re getting older, but I know they’re younger than I am.
Ian Betteridge
jimray
@ianbetteridge @tfb @loke Sharp post and in the comments you get at something that has genuinely made me sad: the correlation between the reactionary shift and the upstart of Dithering. I like John and Ben personally, their rightward drift over the past four years though just bums me out.
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