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Re: Treads and it's Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Strategies as well as illegal harvesting of data. #47

Closed kkarhan closed 9 months ago

kkarhan commented 9 months ago

Apparently StasiBook / NSAbook aka. Meta nee Facebook doesn't understand or rather doesn't even bother to comply with GDPR & BDSG to the point that blocking Threads is an act of self- and mutual defense.

See short explainer and also Threads own words in the form of legalese bullshit.

Claiming that they're entitled to users PII [personally identifying information] and personal data by just following an account on Threads, which at best is completely wrong if not illegal to begin with...

kkarhan commented 9 months ago

This issue exist as further explainer in the activitypub.domains.block.list.tsv