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1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 20 min later

   The US needs good data privacy legislation.

   1. Private reply Bluesky 32 min later
      1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 41 min later

         What is your goal with this mentality

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   2. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 39 min later

      I’m reminded that Meta provided Facebook Messenger messages to law enforcement and helped put this Nebraska woman in jail for two years: www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1...

      Think about what Meta could provide to law enforcement with private web browsing activity.

      1. Lukas Bluesky 1 hr later

         The thing is this is really dangerous once those in power no longer follow previously established values of society.

         1. Lukas Bluesky 1 hr later

            Imagine a hypothetical fascist regime coming to power, tracking messages or websites visited by dissidents. It could quickly identify and suppress them—through threats like deportation—before any legal process could intervene, as fascism involves the forcible silencing of opposition.

            1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later

               it’s a good thing facebook and palantir have no affiliation… wait

            2. Lukas Bluesky 1 hr later

               Eyewitnesses (such as my late grandmother) still use the verb „abgeholt” – en: „picked-up“ – to describe Nazi arrests. This contrast highlights how routine and chilling the repression was ~90yrs ago : people vanished as easily as one might now be “picked up” for dinner.

2. Pier Bluesky 27 min later

   They got caught and decided to "pause the feature"

   www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/m...

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 40 min later

      *PAUSE*

      1. Pier Bluesky 49 min later

         *FEATURE*

         1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 50 min later

            pause is such an accurate word there

            is it unpaused now?? who knows

3. Scott Jehl Bluesky 49 min later

   I quit Facebook when they launched Beacon in 2007. Almost 2 decades of the same shady behavior at this point.

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 52 min later

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceboo... the history is wild. They’re an irredeemable company.

      1. Scott Jehl Bluesky 1 hr later

         our trust was one of the things in move fast & break things

4. iamdtms Mastodon 4 hr later

   @zachleat Wow! So what remains against Brave browser? 🥸