Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s amazing to me so many people expect privacy while blasting their mouth online. Everyone has been scraping that data for years.
retrospectology@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s amazing to me that so many people have accepted a completely warped conception of consent and continue to argue that it’s ok.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Jesus Christ. It’s a PUBLIC forum . My head hurts. I’ll be here channeling my inner boomer at 38 apparently.
You consented when you made the choice to use SOMEONE ELSES PUBLIC COMMUNICATION PLATFORM.
retrospectology@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No, there is a point beyond which the use of data becomes unethical and outside what normal people would actually consider
If you post on a forum, and I collect your data, create a unique writing style profile for you and then match it against other data I scrape or buy from across the web, perhaps your address you used to buy something that was also released to third-party advertisers because you didn’t read some three mile long EULA and I’m able to find all those details, then I use that data and go murder you I don’t then get to argue in court “Well, they posted all that info online, so they were consenting to me using their data in this circuitous, unintuitive way. They wanted me to commit this crime against them.”
That’s not consent. That’s a sociopaths conception of consent.
I get the tech cult has made it really difficult for people to understand these concepts, but it is not ethical to pretend when people post on a social media page with the purpose of having discussion and debate that they also intend for their data to be used in other these other tangential ways.
Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
If you post your name and address in a corkboard in a public hall. You shouldn’t be angry if the mayor or anybody uses your name and address for their benefit. Nobody forced you to post those publicly. Morality is just a social construct anyways.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Normal people don’t shout in public places and expect privacy.
frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 7 months ago
You’re arguing with the worst of silicon feudalist techbros; despite their being capitalists, you will never be able to convince them that their feudal lords should be paying for the data they hoover up and profit off of.
applepie@kbin.social 7 months ago
The issue is not the scrapping of public internet here, the issue is that reddit thinks they own my shit posting lol
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Suggesting common sense pratices and understanding of how the world works isn’t being supporting of the state of things. I see no argument in the comment you replied to that it’s ok.
Time isn’t infinite, and if I have to choose only one option then I’d focus on helping people make their way through the world that currently exists, rather than focusing on impotent ranting about how things should be.
We can’t just snap our fingers and live in the world of how things should be. Until we get there we all have to live in the world that is.