Notices by Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social), page 19

@Mtony75 Sure. Nothing about this is easy. The problem is massive and far reaching. Effective solutions must be comprehensive.

The tech world has been a lawless wild west for too long, and the consequences have been devastating -- our economies, jobs, self esteem, relationships, health, and our vital democratic systems desperately need to be saved and protected.

All industries have to play by rules to protect people and the environment. When they get a pass, we all suffer.

@semordnilap That puts responsibility on the victims. It's like saying we don't need laws against breaking and entering, but should educate people to more effectively lock up their stuff.

Anarchy for corporations with laws for the people is backwards, and the sort of thinking that created monsters nearly beyond control -- more powerful than nearly any group of people or government.

Users absolutely should be better educated, but not in place of comprehensive regulation.

@pm You're insane.

@vascorsd ah. I'll read it later.

@Jo I certainly wouldn't complain if that was done instead.

How much longer is Facebook's gross negligence and deliberate disregard for security and privacy going to be tolerated?

Facebook must be broken up, and all tech companies must be comprehensively regulated.

Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords unprotected

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/21/facebook-admits-passwords-unprotected

@varx haha. Ah. Good point. I suppose it would be pretty nice if more things like that had a local client for editing.

@varx Ah. Is that really much of a benefit? It seems flat sites would also make a lot of things harder (but maybe not impossible) or error prone as well -- things like versioning and quick roll-back, collaboration, facilitating multiple users with different privileges, allowing someone to approve posts before they are visible on the site, extensibility, rich text editing with images, etc.

A CMS, be it WordPress or something else, seems an ideal way to manage a blog or web site.

@maxeddy 🙂

@maxeddy What -- no link to your Mastodon feed?!

@pinkprius Heh. That is ridiculous. I really love the font though. 😄

@TrailRunner_B Thank you!! I didn't see much when I searched either.