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Ethan Schoonover

A corporate "digital ethics consultant" taking a firm stance against... personal privacy. Got it.

Next up: A big-oil "environmental consultant" explains why that pipeline spill is actually a net environmental positive.
28 Dec 2022 at 23:18 | Open on mastodon.social
19 comments
★ Amy Star ★ :verified:​

@ethanschoonover the New York Times is a crypto-fascist rag and I laugh at anyone who has anything resembling "NYT" in their bios for this reason

29 Dec 2022 at 0:21 | Open on unstable.systems
frankie (Pirate from Carribean)
Oh :coffefiedred:

@frankie Privacy is having the right to choose what to share (and what not to share) with other people. A world without privacy is a world where you don't have that choice. Everything you do or say is shared without your consent or knowledge, and I think that's what's truly dangerous.

29 Dec 2022 at 13:28 | Open on mastodon.coffee
Oh 2 ten
Gerardo Lisboa
Dan Hart
Lil’ Arthur
Rich Felker

@ethanschoonover Any connection to Prof. Scott Galloway who's on the exact same propaganda train and one of the backers of Post dot News?

29 Dec 2022 at 9:30 | Open on hachyderm.io
Structed 🎮
Mathijs

@structed @ethanschoonover wow. There is probably some conversation to be had on the intersection between privacy and enabling horrifying human behaviour, but this article is all kinds of not it.

29 Dec 2022 at 10:43 | Open on chaos.social
Structed 🎮

@mvgorcum @ethanschoonover yes, absolutely ridiculous.
Too many things that are absurd in this article, but this stands out: While I agree that one needs to have a certain faith in goodwill, specifically of the state and there is a need for law enforcement to be able to investigate crimes, it's not like we can't have any privacy in our communications because of it.
That's just the most absurd piece in that article.

29 Dec 2022 at 11:44 | Open on mastodon.social
Mathijs

@structed @ethanschoonover what stood out to me is that using signal is "subscribing to an ideology" that has some potential downsides, but somehow using FAANG-type messenger is not? I can see way more, and much clearer downsides of "big tech" than the nebulous potential downsides of signal, but ok.

29 Dec 2022 at 12:01 | Open on chaos.social
Mathijs

@structed @ethanschoonover also, I say this as someone who is explicitly not a fan of signal, because I believe it is a mistake to allow a single entity to dictate how we message/contact people, even if signal is still doing a lot of things right. But none of the interesting and complicated ethical questions are asked, let alone attempted to be answered in that crappy excuse for an article.

29 Dec 2022 at 12:04 | Open on chaos.social
BrancaCadelaPreta
BrancaCadelaPreta

@structed @ethanschoonover
But exactly because of what the author criticizes, I do use Signal! With all its shortcomings rightly criticized here (on Mastodon).

29 Dec 2022 at 15:28 | Open on social.anoxinon.de
Albatroz Jeremias
newsorpigal

@ethanschoonover
I have a lot of concerns about Signal, and honest criticism of Signal is desperately needed. But this article is pure trash.

29 Dec 2022 at 10:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Softwarewolf

@ethanschoonover Fortunately, most of the comments are calling the article out for the bullcrap that it is.

29 Dec 2022 at 13:36 | Open on chitter.xyz
Jacob Henner :verified:
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