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My response to @fedora’s proposal to implement opt-out data collection in Fedora, which was marked as hidden and “flagged as inappropriate: the community feels it is offensive, abusive, to be hateful conduct or a violation of our community guidelines.”
Posting it here, on a space I own, where it cannot be marked as anything by Fedora/Red Hat/IBM:
#fedora #surveillance #privacy #ibm #redHat #telemetry
1/N
@fedora “If this is a feature you believe people want, make the toggle switches off by default so folks can excitedly tell you how much they want to send data to Fedora/Red Hat/IBM.
Also, is this a feature in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
…”
2/N
@fedora “…If not, and it’s something people will absolutely love, I hope it will be implemented for all your paying enterprise customers also. After all, I’m sure you’d hate for folks to think you believe corporations deserve privacy whereas people don’t. I have no doubt it will go down great with large corporations (they love profiling people so I guess that means they’d love getting profiled too, right? Unless they’re hypocrites, of course).”
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@fedora Update: Looks like my post on Fedora’s forum has been unflagged now.
@aral It definitely still shows up as hidden to me (not a user registered on the site).
@ceremus Ah, looks like they hid it again.
Whatever.
@decathorpe @ceremus It’s fine. Thanks for trying.
I won’t waste my time with the forums in the future and just share my thoughts here.
@aral @ceremus I'm not sure I like how this discussion is turning out either ... it's the first proposal that's being discussed on Discourse instead of the mailing list, and almost all the things people said would happen *did* happen (more or less arbitrarily hiding posts / splitting them off into different topics, etc.), which is definitely something we'll need to consider when deciding if we want to use Discourse for this in the future. 