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> remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.


> remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.


> remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.
@prologic ah thanks for doing that, forgot to do it myself. I'll remember next time ๐Ÿ™‚
@shreyan No worries ๐Ÿ‘Œ Good for posterity, and yeah I find it a bit strange too. The whole AI hype thing is just a bit insane for me ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
@shreyan No worries ๐Ÿ‘Œ Good for posterity, and yeah I find it a bit strange too. The whole AI hype thing is just a bit insane for me ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
@shreyan No worries ๐Ÿ‘Œ Good for posterity, and yeah I find it a bit strange too. The whole AI hype thing is just a bit insane for me ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
@prologic @shreyan this is part of my frustration with the regulatory conversation around TikTok right now. Sure, ban an app for โ€œnational securityโ€ reasons but US companies that harvest all data from everyone is totally fine.

The only compromise is to regulate all tracking and data harvesting.
@screem absolutely ๐Ÿ’ฏ I would love to see tracking and collection of users personal data made illegal.
@screem absolutely ๐Ÿ’ฏ I would love to see tracking and collection of users personal data made illegal.
@screem absolutely ๐Ÿ’ฏ I would love to see tracking and collection of users personal data made illegal.
@screem Exactly, this kind of double standard is just plain stupid.