Thanks. I'm not always successful at noticing, but I do make an effort to be aware. Even where I'm not directly affected, so many close friends and lovers *are* affected by these issues that I can't help but account for them.
As I said in the preamble, I think that most privacy on the Internet is illusory, to the extent that I don't put anything on the Internet that I don't consider public. (I think I've made a total of four or five friends locked posts in over a decade of this journal.) But there's a line between "You're never really private" and "A third party is going to plaster your real name all over its website without your permission.", and when a company crosses it, it's right and proper to call them on it. The Internet has a culture, and is a society, and this is how cultures and societies create and enforce their norms.
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As I said in the preamble, I think that most privacy on the Internet is illusory, to the extent that I don't put anything on the Internet that I don't consider public. (I think I've made a total of four or five friends locked posts in over a decade of this journal.) But there's a line between "You're never really private" and "A third party is going to plaster your real name all over its website without your permission.", and when a company crosses it, it's right and proper to call them on it. The Internet has a culture, and is a society, and this is how cultures and societies create and enforce their norms.