OnlyBrownMastodon@annaleen It may be useful (if surprising at first) to consider that the tools of investigative journalism are essentially the same as those used by stalkers and harassers.
Key question for Mastodon, and any social network claiming to be anti-bigotry: "whose safety and ease of use do we choose to prioritise"?
Journalists? Or the desire of marginalised people not to be tracked, surveilled, indexed, bundled, and perhaps sold (or stalked/harassed/threatened en masse, often using automated tools)?
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