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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Microsoft and Friends Want to Destroy Online Privacy (www.breitbart.com)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ignore the fact that it's coming from Breitbart. This is really freaky in more than one way.

FTA:

Against stiff competition, the alliance of tech and media giants has devised a plan that may constitute Big Tech’s most brazen power-grab yet.

According to Microsoft’s press release, it has partnered with several other organizations to form the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

Put simply, the purpose of this organization is to devise a system whereby all content on the internet can be traced back to its author.

The press release states that it will develop these specifications for “common asset types and formats,” meaning videos, documents, audio, and images.

Whether it’s a meme, an audio remix, or a written article, the goal is to ensure that when content reaches the internet, it will come attached with a set of signals allowing its provenance — meaning authorship — can be detected.

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

And what happens to the individual that came to my thread with the explicit intention of derailing it without any consideration? Let me guess? Nothing. As others have pointed out, the topic at hand is legitimate, but all the negative attention now is on me and the source. How ridiculous!

You sure are on your way to become Reddit with this double standard! Keep it up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

There is no double standard. Its simply that insulting other users is against the rules, but there is nothing that forbids criticising sources (which I wouldnt consider derailing).

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Well, let's agree to disagree on the "derailing" topic. As for insulting people, I just said his comment was dumb. I don't see how that's an insult. Even intelligent people say dumb stuff from time to time, nothing wrong with it, I do say dumb stuff as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This is not the kind of behaviour we like to see here. If you keep acting like this then you will be banned.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Feel free to ban me anytime. I will make sure not to come back after the fact, too. After today, I don't see much of a difference between this place and Reddit when it comes to attitudes, anyway. At least Reddit has a huge user base, and you can engage more people. So if banning me helps anything, go ahead!

Cheers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Well, if you came here expecting it to be like Gab, it's not, I'm sorry, this place still have rules.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

Calm down FFS, kitsune. There is no way out if you fuel the conflict. It always ends up in a negative result.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

It was not my intention to derail. To be honest I had no idea there could be such attention on a single thread on lemmy yet ( shows it's getting more popular!) People aren't going to take the news seriously if ir's reported by Breitbart instead of a more respected news outline. This doesn't mean it has to be a liberal or leftist news outlet instead, just one that doesn't require to go: "It know it's Breitbart but hear me out!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

You can't force people to agree with your opinion man. I agree they shouldn't dismiss an argument based on its source alone (unless they're unable to think critically in which case that's sad.) But mod is right. Downvote and disagree, but don't insult. It hurts your arguments position. You're trying to take shortcuts when you insult in trying to convince people of your position. It rarely works on the internet, not least because we're in a world where your opinion is a minority one and the US government is actively trying to quell dissent and push a narrative.