Freddy @freddy@social.privacytools.io

A myth has been made: a tale of wolves on Wall St; a pack of principled amateurs biting the legs of greedy financial giants and bringing them down. But almost everything you think you know about wallstreetbets, GameStop and Robin Hood is wrong.

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/audio/fairy-tale-finance/

@colinl this wins!

@Avneor the instance you're on (social.privacytools.io) is mainly focused on privacy, though really, as long as you keep it civil it doesn't matter what you talk about.

@pino_ac It's no good asking why others did not care or why they did nothing. We cannot do anything about that. What we can do is take action now, and if these sorts of articles and podcasts help then so be it.

@rw only the editors views are morally questionable, not the site in general.

The site has featured some quite prominant writers, though accepts a broad variety of people. The editor does write a lot of articles for the site (which are generally good, as they don't tend to write about the controversial issue).

I like the publishing house analogy, some food for thought (to use the awful expression).

If the internet is addictive, why don’t we regulate it?

https://aeon.co/essays/if-the-internet-is-addictive-why-don-t-we-regulate-it

Predictive policing could help prevent crime. But do we want a future where computer oracles and spies track us from birth?

https://aeon.co/essays/do-we-really-want-to-use-predictive-policing-to-stop-crime

Yes, your data is used to sell you shoes. But it also may be used to sell you an ideology.

https://www.vox.com/recode/22250897/facebook-data-privacy-collection-algorithms-extremism

@Mehrad essenitially, whenever you get a scam email you forward it to me@rescam.org - a service that aims to waste as much of scammers time as possible.

@gritnot I obvously didn't write it, however I'm glad you enjoy it!

Life After Gmail: Why I Opted for a Private Email Server

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-06/you-should-use-a-private-email-server-google-makes-it-hard

@TheDoctor its just an amusing example.

Beware bad habits and mad ideas rushed through under pressure:

> Some innovations developed at speed during this crisis will endure... In 1798, William Pitt the Younger proposed Britain’s first personal income tax to... take “the burdens of the country, by a great temporary exertion”. The precedent allowed a later prime minister, Robert Peel, to reintroduce income tax in the mid-19th century. This time, it stuck.

https://www.ft.com/content/dedf1fc1-d917-44c9-8b96-87669b1a41e2

@pino_ac I understand your point.

Privacy advocates are a minority. By publishing content on larger sites we can attract a larger audience. Otherwise we're just preaching to the converted.

The goal is to spread privacy. Let's not argue about how we do it.

@pino_ac

> Do they think that FB is not major part of the problem they adress?

Obviously not. But my orignal point remains.

> If not, why didn't they come up with that some years ago when it was not too late to publish stuff without FB buttons?

Carissa Véliz has been invloved in researching privacy since the Snowden leaks. As an accademic, they took time to write a book to spread their findings to the masses. This podcast was promoting that book, which can be purchased with cash.

@pino_ac I doubt the guest (aka, the one that is arguing for privacy) has any control over the analytics on the website.

Do we underestimate the importance of privacy?

https://bridges-to-the-future.simplecast.com/episodes/do-we-underestimate-the-importance-of-privacy

Privacy and digital ethics after the pandemic

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-020-00536-y