Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract

• retrospectology@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Mortality is a social construct

      If I hear one more motherfucker use this to disregard a concept I am going to go apeshit.

      Everything made by humanity is either a social construct or caused/influenced by social constructs because we are extremely social animals.

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      • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes all of our norms are a social construct. But pretending that another person is more superior than another simply because the other OP aligned themselves on one of these social constructs is very ridiculous.

        Just let others live their lives, let them choose what they want, let them suffer the consequences. I hate seeing the other OP forcing their belief on others. Just live and let live.

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  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Normal people don’t shout in public places and expect privacy.

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  • frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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