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UK Has Passed The Online Safety Bill (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Dark day for online privacy in the UK.

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[–] JupiterKino@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

SMS support

Completely irrelevant to any point you made previously.

There were desires to open up the platform prior

This article from Moxie himself in 2016 shows they had no intention of expanding/implementing federation at all. This was way before the current President took over.

hopping on a shitty bandwagon of features its competitors have

The fact that you don't differentiate between objective degradations of a service and implementing a feature you don't care about because you are not the target audience for it just show that you don't argue in good faith but just want to push an agenda.