@LALegault Eh. Given the number of scrapers that people have built and their lack of interest in consent, I can't say that people mistaking a tool that looks just like a scraper for a scraper is something I'm going to get excited about. People deliberately causing it to have CSAM and then reporting it is inexcusable, but that's not a Mastodon problem; it's an Internet and social media problem.

I used to have a lot more respect for Sean Tilley, but he's jumped to the defense of too many of these consent-free projects, and his conflation of this incident with what people rightly did to some of those projects, as well as the Wil Wheaton thing, just further erode his credibility with me. He doesn't seem to be able to be bothered to understand or at least express any of the nuance involved with these situations.

Wil Wheaton barged in here like a bull in a china shop. That "BlockTogether" list he promoted is a major reason there are so many trans people here in the first place. It drove them off of Twitter. I don't blame any trans person for not feeling his defensive apology wasn't sufficient. And after his account got suspended, he posted something on his blog along the lines of maybe he'd been right to promote the list all along.

Wheaton has left social media entirely, so I think Wil Wheaton's problem is Wil Wheaton.