Friday, July 14, 2023

Mr. Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend.


FairShare?
WeDon'tNeedToPayNoStinkingFairShareVille


As of noon today, July 14, 2023...






And, as for switching to 'Threads' to avoid the clutches of he who grew his (only) profitable businesses via government subsidy, well...

...Threads potentially collects a wide assortment of personal data that remains connected to you, based on the information available in Apple’s App Store, from your purchase history and physical address to your browsing history and health information. “Sensitive information” is also listed as a type of data collected by the Threads app. Some information this could include is your race, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, and religion as well as your biometric data...


Bad enough, right?

Well, how about the thread bear(ish) 'Supplemental Privacy Policy':

...A noteworthy detail from this document is that while you’re able to deactivate your Threads account whenever, you must delete your Instagram if you fully want to delete your Threads account...


Yup.

That's right.

Once you buy in to Threads you're all in if you are already on, with apologies to Raffi, the Gram-O-Phone.

In other words, think carefully before you do something that you might have great difficulty undoing.


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Why are the digital overlords fighting so hard here in little ol' Canuckistan?...Sure, there is the concern that they might have to pay some kind of tax (in whatever form that takes) on the low ten figures they jack out of the Canadian economy every year...But this is really a continental beach head battle in a fair share war that started way across the ocean....So, if the legislative tax offensive succeeds here, well....It's only a hop, skip and a wee jump across the 49th parallel on the way south and westward to California.



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2 comments:

Trailblazer said...

Sorry Squire; if you rely upon social media for 'important' issues you are loser!!!!

Mass social media = the destruction of intelligence and sensibility.

Frankly the MSM is not much of an advancement!

TB

RossK said...


Don't disagree TB.

So, if this were to break the bund, I suppose this could actually, ultimately, be a good thing.

Personally, I use these things sans algorithm. For example, on the Twitmachine I keep a list of folks whose stuff I want to read under the search bar.

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