Post AhDOXOa2igISTInWIi by oldguycrusty@mastodon.world
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 (DIR) Post #AhDOXNwL6IXOUADoPo by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2024-04-23T14:57:36Z
       
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       I remember folks in the web community shunning me when I first started speaking out against Big Tech – because I was criticising their friends who worked at Google, Facebook, etc. – saying I was exaggerating things.I wonder what the same folks think now given what we know about these very same corporations; given a number of them are actively enabling a genocide.Am I still an alarmist?(I understand if some of you are too busy working at one or debating the minutiae of CSS syntax to reply.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AhDOXOa2igISTInWIi by oldguycrusty@mastodon.world
       2024-04-24T13:48:46Z
       
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       @aral You are not wrong. You may be an alarmist, but that may be a good thing in this case.#facebook is #malware #Meta and #AlphaBet are #parasites that use #vampire business models to extract your #essential #data and then resell it to other parasites in an ever expanding #cannibalistic #orgy of #greed cloaked in the #liturgy of #capitalism.#EatTheRich
       
 (DIR) Post #AhDUpufsjTJWwnk3s0 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
       2024-04-24T14:59:23Z
       
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       @oldguycrusty An alarmist is someone who alarms people *needlessly*. If there is real cause for alarm, you are, by definition, not an alarmist for raising the alarm.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhG1MFwKcECww8QA3k by oldguycrusty@mastodon.world
       2024-04-25T20:13:11Z
       
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       @aral Exactly. I think the danger is real. The threat is objectively tangible.  So while it is 'alarming' I do not believe it is 'Alarmist'.