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Comment Re:The same people who complain about this... (Score 1) 188

Are the first, and most vocal, to remind everyone that web sites are private platforms, not free-speech zones, and the operators are entitled to enforce any rules they want within the limits of the law.

Right - and they're doing what they can do, they're leaving the platform - something I'm sure you would suggest were this not an article about them doing exactly that.

Comment Re:It is your right... (Score 0) 160

...to pretend and believe you are the opposite sex. In fact, I will defend to the death for your right to pretend that.

However, it is not your right to insist I pretend the same.

You can say pretty much whatever you want. But if you address (or refer to) someone in a way that they've explicitly told you they'd rather you didn't, and you continue to do so clearly out of spite, then don't be surprised if folks call you an asshole for doing that.

Comment Re:If it's free... (Score 4, Informative) 57

Niantic started life as an internal team at Google working on monetising location data. Being a revenue centre was the whole point from day one.

Only the "delivery robots" bit of this is actually news. Niantic being a datamining operation that tricked its users into scanning the real world for it is not. Hell Zuboff devoted a chunk of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" to it and that book came out in 2019.

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