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"We’re supposed to think of #metadata as less than #data, but it isn’t: often it is more. . .#govts that want to control their people & crush #dissent want #metadata." #privacy #Whatsapp #BigTech

READ @MishiChoudhary & Eben Moglen's @TOIIndiaNews piece:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/zuckerbergs-whatsapp-follies-tight-integration-with-facebook-is-a-way-of-selling-your-data-to-advertisers-and-others/

Zuckerberg’s WhatsApp follies: Tight integration with Facebook is a way of selling your data to advertisers and others

Mishi Choudhary & Eben Moglen We must hope that Mark Zuckerberg has more sense of humour than he publicly shows. Only a keen sense of irony could ballast him through the self-destructive storm now ravaging...

Jan 19, 2021 at 5:56pmWeb
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@sflc this is an interesting point, but it only makes sense if you see people as isolated individuals and the being no such thing as society. No alternative to the capitalistic free markets and no hope of changing the death spiral we are on - you might be right. BUT this is a deeply reactionary #deathcult point of view and need to be called out as such – LOADLY.