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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 18:05:46 JST Aral Balkan

   Not partnering with trillion-dollar people-farming, human-rights-eroding, and democracy destroying surveillance capitalists like Meta should be the lowest of low bars when it comes to organisations that purport to work on ethical technology but, clearly, even that bar is just too fucking high for some.

   #SocialWebFoundation #SWF #fediverse #mastodon #pixelfed #vivaldi #writeAs #iftas #ghost #mammoth #meta #automattic #medium #flipboard #fordFoundation #fastly #institutionalCorruption #BigTech

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     kritikaPensulo (kritikapensulo@ieji.de)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 18:58:57 JST kritikaPensulo

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     @aral Here’s an interesting example. This is a government agency tasked with defending digital rights in #Belgium:

     https://www.mediateurtelecom.be/article-rapport-annuel-2023/

     As you can see, they don’t merely have a link to their FB account. They actually direct the public to go to #Facebook and #MS #LinkedIn to get /public/ information (that is, info intended for the general public). I am blocked from the publications on that page because I do not have FB or LinkedIn.

     WTF.

     public money → public agency → private #walledgarden.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 23:56:51 JST Aral Balkan

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     • M1k3yv2

     @M1k3yv2 Goodness, those Meta folks must be really foolish, huh? Looks like they’re stepping straight into our trap.

     :awesome:👍

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     M1k3yv2 (m1k3yv2@ioc.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 23:56:52 JST M1k3yv2

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     @aral what else could #SWF do if they join the fedivirce then the network effect keeping them in metas grasp will losen and we will get many more users

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 00:01:30 JST Aral Balkan

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     • M1k3yv2

     @M1k3yv2 Shush, they might be listening… this could foil our ingenuous plan.

     🤫

     #sic

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     M1k3yv2 (m1k3yv2@ioc.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 00:01:31 JST M1k3yv2

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     @aral they might still lock down settings export from there server

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     M1k3yv2 (m1k3yv2@ioc.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 00:08:39 JST M1k3yv2

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     @aral if our plans relia on secrecy they might not be good enough

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 00:08:39 JST Aral Balkan

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     • M1k3yv2

     @M1k3yv2 We’re playing 4D chess.