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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 19:34:59 JST Aral Balkan

   My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.

   With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.

   https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/

   It’s clear from this that Ireland should not be enforcing GDPR (not that they are) and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU. (Don’t hold your breaths.)

   #carelessPeople #facebook #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #USA #fascism #technofascism #EU #tech #humanRights #democracy

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 19:46:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     • European Commission

     CC @EUCommission You folks awake yet?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 20:11:11 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Professor_Stevens
     • European Commission

     @Professor_Stevens @EUCommission Oh, I read the whole thing. But I can’t be arsed to go into every anecdote :)

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     Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 20:11:12 JST Professor_Stevens

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     @aral @EUCommission

     No, but I am. Nice assessment of the parts you read, and I can see why you stopped. One must consider that these "tell all" books only tell the all the author includes. At the risk of being Pollyanna, there's always a rebuttal they leave out.

     That said, Facebook is evil. People farming is evil. But bans are unpopular and hard to justify to the masses. Until they know what Facebook is doing to them personally, no one will care.

     Let's hope they read this book.

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     jandi (jandi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 20:11:57 JST jandi

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     @aral > Ireland should not be enforcing GDPR

     Is this a typo? The "not"?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 20:11:57 JST Aral Balkan

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     • jandi

     @jandi Nope. It should have its authority revoked.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 20:13:48 JST Aral Balkan

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     • jandi

     @jandi Updated the post to make it clearer, thanks.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 22:46:37 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Professor_Stevens @EUCommission ☕️💕

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     Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 22:46:38 JST Professor_Stevens

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     @aral @EUCommission

     Ah, so you did. I am up, but wasn’t fully awake.