"The platforms have rigged things so that you must have an account with them in order to function, but they also want to have the unilateral right to kick people off their systems. The combination of these demands represents more power than any company should have, and Big Tech has repeatedly demonstrated its unfitness to wield this kind of power..." @pluralistic
https://dice.camp/@pteryx/112831326650512796 #cloud #crowdstrike #tech #business
People have always been baffled as to why I refuse to get a Google account or a Discord account, or want programs I actually run locally, subscription-free. @pluralistic explains why:https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/#kafka-as-a-service
https://locusmag.com/2024/07/cory-doctorow-unpersoned/
And no, I don't buy into the "if you're innocent you have nothing to fear" attitude about things like this, or privacy, or the like. I have plenty of experience with authority figures or people in positions of even petty power being arbitrary and untrustworthy.
Cory Doctorow: Unpersoned
AT THE END OF MARCH 2024, the romance writer K. Renee discovered that she had been locked out of her Google Docs account, for posting “inappropriate” content in her private files. Renee…Locus Online