Like, flat-out.

This 'feature' means that someone in an abusive relationship now has a canonized part of the OS monitoring their activities that can be then invoked and studied by the abuser.

Ain't no amount of -group policy- bullshit gonna fix this,

because Microsoft -doesn't allow- the granularity of administration required to defuse this for non-corporate users.

"Use Linux" is not an appropriate response.

People do not always have the agency to choose their operational environment and you cannot fix structural unsafety with individual choice.

This is not a jape nor a joke, and I am not willing to countenance this as an argument.

Do not perpetuate abusive situations by blaming a victim for the environment they are in.

@munin
If we can't laugh at horrors even a little, then we're all going to go crazy.

It's not a _good_ argument, but then, neither is anything else; Microsoft will do whatever they're going to do, and they'll probably ignore the abuse potential of their tech because, well, *gestures at the entire history of computing so far*

Maybe they'll back off, maybe they won't, but there's a very real chance we will be stuck here doing harm reduction. As we always are. And we should be prepared to do it as well as we can.

@0xabad1dea