Definitely seems like one of the perils of entrusting all of our communication to corporations that have been cajoled by politicians into monitoring all of our messages because of all those pesky laws that (try to) keep the government from doing it themselves.
People can respond about what a bad or dumb joke it was, but he made it in the privacy of his friend group. It should be easy to extrapolate this to other situations. What's stopping Snapchat from reporting a woman for discussing her abortion when she lives in a southern US state? What's stopping Snapchat from reporting messages that suggest the users may be illegal immigrants to Texas authorities?
It seems absurd to consider the idea that the phone companies may be monitoring every phone call in real time to report possible illegal activity to the government, but maybe that never happened in the past only because the technology to do so seemed prohibitively expensive. Now tech companies are facing so much pressure from loudmouthed politicians that they are bending over backward to violate (what feels like should be) our right to privacy when utilizing these services. But maybe we never had any right to privacy at all?
Yeah, how much could 200,000 books cost? Probably a drop in the bucket compared to OpenAI's funding. But we're in jest, of course Sarah Silverman isn't interested in payment for just 1 copy of her book for the AI to "read", she expects a percentage cut of everything.
Finally was able to register an account! -- Anyway, I tried posting another comment, but my core question is really: how many instances blocked Raspberry Pi's instance? There's no real numbers. As far as I could tell following along on Mastodon, it was maybe one or two small anarchist theme instances that posted about blocking the RP instance. The #fediblock hashtag is not strict marching orders, it's not as if mastodon.social or other large instances immediately blocked RPI's instance just because of this controversy. They're still very much alive and being federated across most instances.
I'm pretty certain only one or two small, anarchist-themed instances defederated raspberry pi's instance. The greater mastodon community completely ignored this issue, and after a few days it seems like the pile-ons are tapering off on RPi's toots.
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One of the perils of "services"
Definitely seems like one of the perils of entrusting all of our communication to corporations that have been cajoled by politicians into monitoring all of our messages because of all those pesky laws that (try to) keep the government from doing it themselves. People can respond about what a bad or dumb joke it was, but he made it in the privacy of his friend group. It should be easy to extrapolate this to other situations. What's stopping Snapchat from reporting a woman for discussing her abortion when she lives in a southern US state? What's stopping Snapchat from reporting messages that suggest the users may be illegal immigrants to Texas authorities? It seems absurd to consider the idea that the phone companies may be monitoring every phone call in real time to report possible illegal activity to the government, but maybe that never happened in the past only because the technology to do so seemed prohibitively expensive. Now tech companies are facing so much pressure from loudmouthed politicians that they are bending over backward to violate (what feels like should be) our right to privacy when utilizing these services. But maybe we never had any right to privacy at all?
Yeah, how much could 200,000 books cost? Probably a drop in the bucket compared to OpenAI's funding. But we're in jest, of course Sarah Silverman isn't interested in payment for just 1 copy of her book for the AI to "read", she expects a percentage cut of everything.
Maybe it went to the library?
How defederated?
Finally was able to register an account! -- Anyway, I tried posting another comment, but my core question is really: how many instances blocked Raspberry Pi's instance? There's no real numbers. As far as I could tell following along on Mastodon, it was maybe one or two small anarchist theme instances that posted about blocking the RP instance. The #fediblock hashtag is not strict marching orders, it's not as if mastodon.social or other large instances immediately blocked RPI's instance just because of this controversy. They're still very much alive and being federated across most instances.
I'm pretty certain only one or two small, anarchist-themed instances defederated raspberry pi's instance. The greater mastodon community completely ignored this issue, and after a few days it seems like the pile-ons are tapering off on RPi's toots.