Suspending them before they have actually done anything wrong is a bit like a pre-crime.
jtb
joined 1 year ago
Remember what Google Groups did to Usenet? We should be wary.
If it is software how do you know who has implemented it and whether the instance respects privacy?
If I am reading Google Translate's English translation of your post, am I reading human authored text or AI authored text?
I discovered google had recorded all the hashtags I had visited on mastodon. I thought I had turned off this recording, but there were additional categories which I think they have added since the last time I was there.
Of course the UK government and ISP record everything too, by URL, so that includes hashtags, even this post has a unique URL.
Usenet? It's is still there, despite google's attempts to absorb it.
I should think there are many people who think Google Groups is Usenet, and they have to register with google to post on there. Recently I think they have removed the option to view the source of an article.