7 Followers
44 Following
69 Posts
Mom. Love #nature, #animals, #travel, #Democracy. #Equality. Here to learn.
MBA, MS Psychology, advanced studies in Sociology.
Actually, the tax returns of all Supreme Court justices should absolutely be made public. That should be a requirement to be one of the nine people with lifetime appointments who make final legal decisions for the rest of the country.

So, yeah, if we take these two stories in combination: Elon is (a) demanding that everyone who uses Twitter hand over their live location info to him and (b) has now banned anyone from posting the live location of anyone.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/14/twitters-big-ad-plan-violate-both-ftc-consent-decree-california-privacy-law-to-force-users-to-hand-over-info-for-ad-targeting/

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/14/elons-promise-not-to-ban-account-tracking-his-jet-didnt-last-very-long-at-all-also-bans-guys-personal-account/

Twitter’s Big Ad Plan: Violate FTC Consent Decree, California Privacy Law & EU Privacy Laws To Force Users To Hand Over Info For Ad Targeting

The good folks over at Platformer broke the news that Twitter is experimenting with Elon’s desperate attempt to make money: forcing people to “opt-in” to share personal info so th…

Techdirt
@politicsusa46 Dr. fauci is a scientific and honorable man with only one goal in mind. To save lives.
🚨Breaking: Following our complaints from 2018, Meta's business model has been declared illegal in the EU. The EDPB decided that Meta cannot force users to agree to personalized ads.
Read our full statement here: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personalized-ads-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-declared-illegal
noyb win: Personalized Ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp declared illegal

The EDPB has decided that three Meta Apps (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) did not have a legal basis to process user data since May 2018. Meta's legal trick has been rejected.

noyb.eu
@charlie_savage Alito is disgusting. This is how the privileged get away with saying reprehensible things — by acting like the are being playfully and wittily transgressive when in fact the are just being racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic. Alito could have made the same substantive points without using such hypotheticals.

Politico put it this way:

"The former president and the person that polls show is still the most likely GOP presidential nominee in 2024, today on Truth Social called for the suspension of the Constitution."

This poses a problem for journalists who would cover the 2024 election. By what logic can that coverage proceed?

Neutrality makes sense only within a constitutional order that his candidacy is trying to upend. "Just report the news" pretends this will be a normal campaign.

#journalism

On Dec 2, 1859, Abolitionist John Brown was the first American ever executed for treason. The second ever executed for treason was Aaron Dwight Stevens (March 15, 1831 – March 16, 1860).

Their crimes? Attempting to free the enslaved. The first Americans executed for treason was for the crime of freeing the enslaved.

Legality is not always a measure of justice & morality, but a measure of power. This was only two life spans ago.

May we learn from these atrocities & uphold justice forever.

Remember just like anywhere else without end to end encryption, your DMs here are not private.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079

Distributed servers (/instances) can make for interesting times (eg, potentially no more record of your toots/followings/followers) should your server go down. Server resilience against hostile actors is case-by-case.