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tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users

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Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users

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tvbusy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…
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    Imagine if phone companies started selling our conversations without giving us a cent for the content.

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      Oh, my sweet, summer child. Maybe not phone calls (yet?), but they sell lots of other data they maintain about you. Location data, specifically, is a hot seller.

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        Is that where Google Maps gets traffic data from?

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          Yes and no. Google definitely uses location data to improve traffic details, but GPS has always been able to get some level of data about it, despite being mostly a one way system. I don’t really remember the details, I’ll try to dig out an article

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      Don’t a lot of calls get recorded now anyway? (I’m just asking, I don’t actually know)

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        Not without consent of at least one party to the call, no. Unlike most forms of invasive spying, that one is illegal.

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          Oh my sweet summer child.

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          Of course security agencies are allowed to make recordings, pretty broadly in the US.

          https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/five-things-to-know-about-nsa-mass-surveillance-and-the-coming-fight-in-congress

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            I’m talking about businesses here. Government security agencies generally aren’t bound by law or morality at all.

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