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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/113175694749192215">Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 22:08:32 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" title="aral@mastodon.ar.al"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/theme/gnusocialjp/default-avatar-stream.png" width="48" height="48" alt="Aral Balkan" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Aral Balkan</a></section><article><p>Economist Group cancer conference cancelled due to links to tobacco firms</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/21/economist-group-cancer-conference-cancelled-due-to-links-to-tobacco-firms" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/21/economist-group-cancer-conference-cancelled-due-to-links-to-tobacco-firms</a></p><p>I don’t understand, this sort of thing never stopped Rightscon, CPDP, Nordic Privacy Arena, Amsterdam Privacy Week, or FOSDEM.</p><p>Maybe some tech folks are so next level they’re immune to institutional corruption or something. Yeah, that must be it. Otherwise it would mean they’re corrupt to the core.</p><p>🤔 </p><p><a href="https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/</a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/humanRights" rel="tag">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/tech" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/institutionalCorruption" rel="tag">#institutionalCorruption</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/followTheMoney" rel="tag">#followTheMoney</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3705196#notice-7256647">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-09-21T22:08:32+09:00" title="Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 22:08:32 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113175694749192215" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.ar.al via ActivityPub">mastodon.ar.al</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113175694749192215">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: ar.al</div><h5><a href="https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/#humanRights">I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)</a></h5><div></div></header><div>It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes, it’s exactly what you have to do in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, and surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy.
You see, it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected groups and organisations in the world.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 22:08:32 JST Aral Balkan
Economist Group cancer conference cancelled due to links to tobacco firms
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/21/economist-group-cancer-conference-cancelled-due-to-links-to-tobacco-firms
I don’t understand, this sort of thing never stopped Rightscon, CPDP, Nordic Privacy Arena, Amsterdam Privacy Week, or FOSDEM.
Maybe some tech folks are so next level they’re immune to institutional corruption or something. Yeah, that must be it. Otherwise it would mean they’re corrupt to the core.
🤔
https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/
#humanRights #tech #institutionalCorruption #BigTech #followTheMoney
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  It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes, it’s exactly what you have to do in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, and surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy. You see, it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected groups and organisations in the world.

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