[smc-discuss] Facebook and Google spy on you

[Pirate Praveen]

On Thursday 06 November 2014 11:21 PM, Akshay S Dinesh wrote:
> 
>     Well, people did chose not to obey the British law. But the cost they
>     paid was lockups. The point is the cost of leaving (or disobeying) is
>     too high to effectively make that choice meaningless for most people.
> 
> 
> ങ്ങേ? സമ്മതിച്ചോ?
> if cost of leaving is so high that there is no choice than continuing,
> how can they try switching (to bring down the cost of leaving?)

Like Anivar's example of Dual Booting, build the replacement and reduce
the cost of leaving.

> I switched (day before yesterday) to diaspora only because it
> automatically posts to facebook, and so I'm not losing anything. But I
> want to comment on "kiss of love", etc in public such that people see
> it. If I delete my facebook account today, how will people hear my ideas?
> I just had a google hangout for organizing an important event on Sunday.

I did not say remove facebook right away. The problem is that not many
in this list are not even taking that step of "dual boot" to post in
diaspora first.

My anger comes from the lack of efforts from many who are passionate
about Free Software.

If only the members who are active on facebook, whatsapp, google plus
__also__ posted on diaspora as a contribution to building up a network
that we ideally want, I'd not have started this rant.

> There are some things that philosophy can't buy. For everything else,
> there is open source.
> 
> --
> 
> But I told Praveen myself in a chat one day. It would be very nice if
> people who know the importance of open source, privacy-aware tools can
> use those whenever possible. Like say, post tech related posts on
> diaspora, send geeky emails via autistici, etc.

The whole rant started because most people here are not ready to take
even the steps Akshay took. That is what makes me angry and sad.


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