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   Alec Muffett (alecmuffett@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:03:32 JST Alec Muffett

   Unverified report: 14yo loses access, banned from Google/YouTube because Google Photos includes video of self as baby in bathtub
   https://alecmuffett.com/article/113654
   #HumanRights #OnlineSafety #censorship #privacy

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     Alec Muffett (alecmuffett@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:03:29 JST Alec Muffett

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     • Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

     @blenderdumbass Apple are famous for this, but the way that they play to their near-religious fanbase is convincing them that new features in iOS are innovations irrespective that Samsung launched them in Android several years previously.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:03:29 JST 翠星石

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     • Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
     @alecmuffett @blenderdumbass You can't see thing, but Apple is indeed a religion.
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     Alec Muffett (alecmuffett@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:03:30 JST Alec Muffett

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     • Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

     @blenderdumbass big tech does not care about ruining anybody's reputation, it's not a winning tactic. The thing which wins is ease of use and reliability and the ability to connect.

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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:03:30 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     @alecmuffett I don't think so. Maybe for the older generations. For the youth everything is now split into fan-bases and camps. To strategize for the future is to strategize taking that fan-base mentality seriously.

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     Alec Muffett (alecmuffett@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:03:31 JST Alec Muffett

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     • Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

     @blenderdumbass Which is fine until regulators discover it and then declare it to be an "unregulated wild west of illegal content and children using platforms where they could be groomed"

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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:03:31 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     @alecmuffett Well Tor survived through that. We need to brace ourselves on the fediverse. And we will also survive it. We need to ruin the reputation of Big Tech faster than Big Tech can ruin the reputation of the Fedi, and maybe people will wake up to ageism for the first time in 125 years.

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     Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud ) (blenderdumbass@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:03:32 JST Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

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     @alecmuffett Fediverse has less of this ageism.