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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 27

    Aral Balkan Retweeted Frank Treacy

    And don’t use Facebook & don’t use Google & don’t use Snapchat & don’t use Yahoo & don’t use 99% of mainstream technology because we invested 99% of all funds into building surveillance-based platforms and if you don’t like it then don’t use modern technology. Not acceptable.https://twitter.com/thefrank06/status/989990315057733632 …

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    Frank Treacy @thefrank06
    Replying to @stevemarkperry @aral
    This is bad, but if you don't like it: don't use it. It's not the State that if you don't like it you're obliged to deal with it.
    3:18 PM - 27 Apr 2018
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      2. Frank Treacy‏ @thefrank06 Apr 27
        Replying to @aral

        That sounds great, but what is the solution?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Apr 27
        Replying to @thefrank06

        Here’s the general plan: https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/ … and one initiative our not-for-profit is working on building right now, supported by the City of Ghent: https://indienet.info  – others are working on similar projects. Overarching ethos: https://ind.ie/ethical-design 

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      4. Frank Treacy‏ @thefrank06 Apr 29
        Replying to @aral

        I like the initative, congratulations. Has any group of people sued Facebook and other companies for breaching the terms/contract when they gave out information to the NSA, do you know? I think that's more powerful (if Justice actually worked)

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      2. Frank Treacy‏ @thefrank06 Apr 27
        Replying to @aral

        And again, they should be judged for sharing information with the surveillance State which was certainly not in their terms of service. As for what people agree to, I'm sorry – it's that: an agreement.

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      3. abdullah tarawneh | عبدالله الطراونه‏ @trwnh Apr 27
        Replying to @thefrank06 @aral

        I did not agree to have my phone number and contact information vacuumed up from my friends' phones. I did not agree for my IP to be logged on every page that has a Facebook "Like" button. This goes far beyond any "agreement". And no, being on the internet is NOT implicit consent

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      2. Aaron Wolf‏ @awolftune Apr 27
        Replying to @aral

        More broadly: the logic of "you don't have to use it" would equally apply to complaining about others' complaints. If you don't like someone complaining, you're not forced to read or reply.

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      3. Aaron Wolf‏ @awolftune Apr 27
        Replying to @awolftune @aral

        and by that I mean, the folks saying "don't have to use it" are hypocrites *as well as* being wrong about the practical matter of (lack of) ease of abstinence from modern technology

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      2. Ysbryd PPFOB  🕊 🦊 🐝 🌳 🌗‏ @YsbrydArtist Apr 27
        Replying to @iandavisian1 @aral @MastodonProject

        http://Ecosia.org  Plant a tree for each search & don’t track you.

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      4. Ysbryd PPFOB  🕊 🦊 🐝 🌳 🌗‏ @YsbrydArtist Apr 28
        Replying to @iandavisian1 @aral @MastodonProject

        Would rather not use Goggle for obv. reasons (they also skew results as well as track data). Ecosia are more Ethical on the whole. Although it depends what you use search engines for in terms of result matches. Is there such thing as a ‘clean’ search engine?

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      5. Ysbryd PPFOB  🕊 🦊 🐝 🌳 🌗‏ @YsbrydArtist Apr 28
        Replying to @YsbrydArtist @iandavisian1 and

        [Goggle Scholar gives better results on research topics by the way, something many aren’t aware of, but it’s still the big G corporate machine. Would dearly love to avoid altogether, but that seems to mean switching off entirely. 🙄]

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      1. Legit Gamer‏ @PokemonGO599 Apr 28
        Replying to @aral

        And don't create online accounts for corporate stores like Walmart or Target or Best Buy either. And don't even think about making credit card accounts.

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      2. James Chard‏ @jameschard Apr 28
        Replying to @aral

        I've left @Facebook and now only use the @brave browser and @DuckDuckGo search engine.

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      3. DuckDuckGo‏Verified account @DuckDuckGo Apr 28
        Replying to @jameschard @brave

        Hi James. Thanks for your support. It's good to have you on the Duck Side!

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