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Michael Downey 🧢

🤔 Isn't it funny how you never hear the wannabe-influencer "let's wait and see" apologists on here ever deal with the countless cases like this?

☣️ "Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with and for years, congressional probe finds"

cnn.com/2023/07/12/tech/tax-pr

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jtb

@downey But that isn't a case like this. ActivityPub won't leak data out to threads, so the only data threads could misuse is #threads users data.

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Michael Downey 🧢

@jtb Sorry, but are you attempting to defend a habitual human rights abuser?

Why?

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scrottie

@jtb @downey FB/Meta has joined the W3C standards working group for ActivityPub, giving them influence on the protocol. Previously the working group was nearly shut down because corporations refused to participate. Worse, if they do drive traffic, that gives them power to make demands. This is an embrace-extend-extinguish play just like how RSS and XMPP before ActivityPub were successfully hijacked by corporations and then killed.

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