Speaking of hosting, Discord used to be one of the biggest (inadvertent) image hosts, so they might have set up the system to reduce legal exposure than to monitor conversations per se.[1]
replyA lot of the internet broke the day they flipped that switch off.
Weren't external Tumblr hotlinks also a thing back in the day?
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/16uy0an/not_sur...
To be fair, the terms and conditions probably say that they can do whatever they want with that data :-).
replyDon’t forget all the government creeps snooping on the wires.
replyUntil the current administration, I was much more bothered by private misuse/abuse of date than the government. Now I worry about both.
replyGood. Being OK with authoritarianism because they are on your side is never good.
replyThat was always the wrong threat model hierarchy. I have always been more concerned what the federal, my state and my local government can do when given more power/informstion than the federal government
replyWhy? People who volunteer to work for these government drag nets must be total psychos.
replyVolunteer? I mean they do get paid.
replyThe thing is it's a mix of both.
You have the fervent that love recording everything "for the good of the people". But then you'll just have piles of people with separation of duties that do things with very little understanding of where they fit in the process and very little care to.
We gave those brogrammers the keys to the machine when we made programming more accessible.
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