@DrPen @RecursiveElegance Why attempt to twist what we talked about and make it just about book publishers?

The #corporatists hate privacy networks, if you haven't noticed they prefer #privacyTheatre, and identifying and #fingerprinting people. They have been perverting #universities in #Australia for about two decades — at least.

I've been seeing a few requests for Vanishing Message (or "self-destructing messages") for the fediverse. So I think it's important to make say this, as simply as clearly as possible...

Vanishing Messages are Privacy Theatre:

https://flameeyes.blog/2014/07/22/privacy-theatre/

Let's unpack this a bit...

#fediverse #privacy #PrivacyTheatre #VanishingMessages

@ajroach42 @chosafine how *good* its privacy controls are? I...*sigh*. I guess some people have completely stopped getting news outside their FB streams or something.

Those elaborate, fine-grained settings are #privacytheatre and that is the case for ALL advertising-driven online services. They only serve to make users FEEL like their data is private by hiding it from other users, but paying customers (advertisers are NOT users) get whatever they want!