Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.

If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.

Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.

It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.

A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.

The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.

If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights

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@mauve @Forbearance I reckon there are 3 categories of YouTube uploaders with different needs:
1. If you just want to publish videos, PeerTube is great!
2. Some people believe they need YouTube for the reach, so that their videos will be discovered by their potential audience; this is something the Fediverse could fulfil in future (or perhaps already, depending on your expected scale).
3. But the hard problem is that some people depend on Google's advert money to make a living. (If Liberapay or Patreon would be enough, you're in category 2 instead and we're back in the race.)

@mauve can we seize and redistribute YouTube specifically

I'm not going to waste my precious human time reading something that you didn't spend your precious human time writing.

I really don't care about the well-aligned randomly stolen words of a text-generating machine you are using for cheap marketing.

#NoAI

Efficiency is the removal of redundancy. Redundancy is a necessary element of resilient systems. The unbounded search for efficiency has one result: brittleness.

There are two problems in computer science:

1. We could do this better
2. We should not do this at all

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