I have removed the Facebook and Messenger apps from my phone. Legally speaking, I am unable to fully deactivate my social media at this time but may very well do so when I can.
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I will probably keep my Twitter active, of course. Everything I do here is public and I intend for it to be that way.
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My facebook is for closer personal relationships only with people I know. I use it less and less anyways. I use Gab to blather about sports, but I can live without that.
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This is the post that tipped me over the edge:https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/978658249921781761 …
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Social media is becoming nothing but a vector of endless harassment. And in the past week or so I have discovered that the harassment I was seeing was just the public face of a much deeper plot to perpetrate violence against me.
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I did download my FB data. It is as unremarkable as my 10+ years of use of that site. It does not contain my call history or anything else. But I am done giving myself over to an unregulated surveillance system.
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I'm going to try to make more calls, write more letters, and spend more time in the world, playing D&D, playing hockey, taking walks, riding my bike, learning languages and math and doing all those things.
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If I, a Senior Data Scientist and a non-violent activist, am deeply troubled by this, you should be, too.
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There's something that makes me sad, though. My wife and I have developed a communication language that involves Messenger Stickers and we'd send them to each other dozens of times a day. It was a cute way of telling each other how we felt. That's gone now. And I'm sad.
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I understand, but maybe we should not leave the country; that is a kind of surrender. I've always wanted to be a pacifist. But the details of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's final years always change my mind.
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Her own concerns for her life and safety are not surrendering, think about the individual
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The work Emily has done has been tremendous. Calling anything a surrender is making this work seem flimsy. Support her decisions and be glad she helped when she could. We all need to worry about us too.
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I neither said nor implied Emily was surrendering. I am referring to a situation in which the Amerinazis win total control of most of North America. Bonheoffer gave up his life to stay and "fight" against German Nazis. But that is a PERSONAL decision to be made by each of us.
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I'll miss your posts, but you should take care of yourself. Best of luck.
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Credit cards? EZ-Pass? Delete apps? Social media is actually a smaller piece of the surveillance economy than the MSM is making it out to be.
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What's your point? People take the steps they can.
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My point is that paying cash and using the right email provider may be even more important than getting off social media.
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Don't even get me started re secure browsing -- which is an issue pretty much everywhere except perhaps the EU once GDPR really kicks in.
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That feeling is going around
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I will miss you terribly. I also FULLY understand. <3
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