A naive planet. Google embrace, extend, extinguish. For profit companies do not want a free community taking away from their ad revenue and they see that the fediverse is something that could take users away from their platforms.
If you trust meta, I’m sorry but your an idiot.
If it’s secure, reliable, and fully traceable then it has the potential to be valuable if people adopt it. Google sheets allows you to write scripts in many popular languages, so you could implement a Blockchain on it, it would be dumb, but you could do it.
If only the FTC would protect the rest of our data as well. It’s truely insane the number of MASSIVE data breaches that didn’t even get a slap on the wrist for the companies that had really terrible security and lost customer data. In this day and age if a company stores data about people they should be held liable for their data breaches, and not just a slap on the wrist, but fined an amount that is large enough to actually make them give a shit as well as being 200% liable for the damage that they cause to people’s lives as well as true preemptive work to try and fix their mistake and make their fuck up right. I’m looking at you Equifax, I never consented to you having any of my data.
It was a condition of his release, so their choice was either leave him in jail or turn over their phones. The US justice system only exists to fuck people, not to provide justice or follow the laws.
Don’t forget that they have an obligation to their shareholders to continually grow profits. While their past is a red flag, being a publicly traded corp means that they will do everything that they can to keep alternatives from taking there market share.