This is a warning about Meta and Threads.
Please boost this here and outside of Mastodon so that pregnant people in the United States are informed that using Meta/Threads is dangerous.
I'm unlikely to get pregnant but I have ZERO presence on Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads as a matter of principle.
@crowgirl This is what happened at kolektiva.social too. If there's a subpoena or a warrant, site owners have to hand over the info.
Meta is bad enough as it is. Why spread misinformation?
@OutOnTheMoors @crowgirl Really important to keep this in mind: any US company, at least, will and must pretty much freely hand over all information they have to law enforcement upon request. Any data the company has access to is *not* secret in that sense.
@OutOnTheMoors @ech @crowgirl And? Still don't want to use a service that snitches on me...
@AnCuRuadh @OutOnTheMoors @crowgirl Then use e2e encryption so such snitching is impossible, or don't use services. Sad to say those are your choices, as far as I know.
@AnCuRuadh @OutOnTheMoors @crowgirl (To be clear, this post was a response to the question "And?")
@OutOnTheMoors @ech @crowgirl
> will and must hand over all information they have to law enforcement upon request.
The keyword here is "they have". If one doesn't have the information then there's nothing to hand over. Meta is bad not because they complied with the subpoena but because they collect and store all that information. Don't want to be evil? - just don't collect unnecessary data. Simple as that. But Meta won't stop collecting data. User data is the oil of their business model.
@ech @AnCuRuadh@awwter.online @crowgirl Ah, yes. The mature, pleasant level of Mastodon debate. So much less abusive than FB. 🙄😂