Whatever your opinion of passkeys is.. who is the Microsoft team lead that allowed this? Why was this not shut down by a marketing team the moment they heard about it?

Is Microsoft *trying* to get bad press? I don't understand.

This is coming:

- before export is supported in Authenticator.
- across the board regardless of whether the sites you're storing support passkeys
- right after multiple advocates have said "passkeys aren't designed to *eliminate* passwords for everyone"

And is not just like a freeze, it's actually deleting data.

So.. okay charitably, the first experience a bunch of people are now going to have with passkeys is their authenticator threatening to force account recovery.

If the point of a protest is to push on areas where we can affect change - then if we're seeing the biggest gatekeepers in front of information dissemination become determined to characterize fascism as business as usual.. that's a problem, right? Is that a thing where we could affect change?

Or at least steer the national coverage in a way that's impossible for them to ignore?

I'm only kind of sarcastic here. I've been watching some history coverage of the how the NYT and other newspapers covered the holocaust, and nothing has changed with how they operate, and I do kind of feel like we should be organizing protests *at media organizations*.

Large demonstrations with the demand "actually cover what the fuck is happening in the world."

I'm not saying that should be the focus, there are other locations too obviously. I'm just saying maybe you have a crowd of protesters standing outside of the NYT office in Manhatten with a giant set of speakers and a giant projector showing livestreams from other locations.

Somewhat loud and bright. Since they seem to miss those events accidentally sometimes.