resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
@PaulaToThePeople @dsfgs I believe "Cloudglare" is dsfgs's deliberate misspelling of #CloudFlare, which is the elephant in the room that your otherwise comprehensive article neglects while actually referring users to #NoMoreGoogle, a CF site that should be avoided.
@Gargron @janssens_bart the ethical thing for #twitter to do is to acknowledge that it's not their place to control who gets to interact with politicians and refuse to serve all politicians who (mis)use Twitter as a public service. It's not the profitable move but it's the ethical one.
@janssens_bart @Gargron As a state actor, #Trump has no place on #Twitter in the 1st place. Nor does #Biden or any other politician. We expect politicians to serve *the public*, not members of an exclusive walled garden that's centrally controlled by a private corporation who controls who among the /public/ may communicate to their representatives in /public/ office.
@Gargron @janssens_bart It's precisely the banning of low-profile activists that serve as strong rationale to leave twtr, as well as the substantial number of Indians that #Twitter marginalized not too long ago.
@janssens_bart @Gargron #Twitter banned me (a small-time activist who exposes the harms of #CloudFlare). My posts were civil but CF is a powerful adversary. Banning someone who incites violence & pushes misinfo from a trusted posture (e.g. #Trump) is not a strong case against Twitter. And sadly, only relatively non-controversial bans get headlines b/c civil activists like myself aren't notworthy.
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One thing on my project list: a Universal Product Catalog. Find a product on the site, and the site will link you directly to all the places you can get it (online and/or local to you) -- the actual product pages, where possible -- eventually with crowdsourced ratings of each source, along various metrics including ethicality.
@andre @deejoe @woozle The detailed list of wrongdoing can be huge. For example, see some of the pull-down arrows in the 1st post of this thread: https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/141
@woozle @andre @deejoe when you say the /collective/, do you mean all consumers or a select group of mods? That's the tricky part b/c while I think (for eg.) #CloudFlare is a show-stopping evil that needs a big spotlight most normies are ok w/it. I would put up a fight to get CloudFlare flags while the majority wouldn't care & there would even be some who fully oppose disclosure of CF. What then?
@andre @deejoe @woozle If I were doing this, I'd probably conclude that most merchants are doing something unethical to varying degrees (the idea is to compare them), but Amazon crosses a line where they aren't even worthy of the comparison. Of course, excluding Amazon pricing would turn some ppl off, but they can be written off b/c they're not aligned with the mission anyway.
@woozle @andre @deejoe Those types of services come and go over the years, but they're always useful and needed most now with #Amazon's stranglehold. The crowdsourced ratings will consume a large share of your energy I suspect. The ethics feature is the very needed thing that could make it a killer service distinguished from the rest. So I suggest deferring the ratings for far in the future.
@neil @techware Jami is hands-down superior to Wire from an ethics PoV, but has usability/UX issues that narrows the userbase. Briar is also superior to Wire ethically, but being Android-only narrows applicability. In any case, if Signal is on top popularity-wise w/your correspondants something is very wrong. There's no good reason for that.
@techware @neil You forgot to mention #Wire, #Jami, #Briar, & #XMMP. #Telegram shares many of #Signal's problems & it's equally reprehensible. #Wire is superior to Signal, sharing just a couple of Signal's problems but avoids the most serious issues that Signal has. It's almost a drop-in replacement, notwithstanding case where metadata exposure is incompatible with threat models.
@rysiek @twsh Looks interesting. I predict they will overlook a big obsticle to open access: universities often subscribe to electronic books & journals that are jailed in the walled garden of #CloudFlare. Even "open access" publications are encumbered by this affliction, & schools turn a blind eye to it. It needs exposure. Consider raising the issue if you see the opportunity.
@lps @privacyint i would have liked to see a link, b/c it's a bit out of charactor for Brits to care about privacy.
@tobi Broken #CloudFlare website. Trying to reach the context via #WaybackMachine doesn't work either- it's firing blanks. When a *.gov site is CFd there's a bit of extra embarrassment that the gov can't work out how to secure their own resources so they outsource, and then lack the competence of selecting an unoppressive supplier.
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The Internet was built as a kind of decentralized democracy. Change is slow and messy but it protects us from a single entity forcing their will on us.
When you move your data and social graph to a closed platform you vote for authoritarian rule.
Such choices never end well.
@jubes I think clever web design can mitigate the perceived need for #CloudFlare. E.g. code image dimensions into the html so the important content can quickly render before the images. Use #SBLAM (#CAPTCHA alternative) on pages with form input. Failing that, CF has competitors that are more worthy, who don't attack your own users as a consequence of their sloppy technique.
Joined Mar 2019
