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X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history
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this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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Stop using Twitter.
Stop using Reddit.
Stop using FaceBook.
Stop using Instagram.
Just stop, and they will have to stop.
The wheels don't turn if the rats stop racing.
I'm doing my part!
I have
But so many stay on those shit sites.. ._.
At this point I'm actively evangelizing fedi platforms as functional replacements-
The only thing meta has that's worth anything to me is... my friends and family all have accounts there, it's the only means I have of staying in touch with some of them. If I convince half of them to migrate it's a win-win
You forgot to mention the big dogs. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft... much harder to escape... and we need to.
But yeah, Musk, Zuck, and Huff can fuck off.
You're never going to get the corps to stop sucking each other off. Microsoft is inescapable in business sectors as of right now. Doing without Amazon or Google requires a moderate amount of willpower. The biggest issue is the sheer number of people who just don't give a fuck.
"Babe, these corporations want to enslave our children, please stop buying the coffee"
"I can't its so good, they won't imprison our children."
Fucking shoot me.
"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."
Edit: Added the quote
I am so glad I have stopped using reddit entirely. Lemmy feels like a better community anyway, and the decentralized nature of it is awesome.
Got the list down to only Twitter. I wish Lemmy had more local users otherwise I’d ditch Twitter.
But I do my part by blocking advertisements. If I spend 20 minutes blocking ads I won’t see any for a few weeks.
Mastodon instead of twitter maybe?
Has anybody here tried to file a GDPR deletion request with Twitter?
I have never used Twitter, so no.