Oh, The Irony
Mar. 21st, 2018 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lucifersprizeWith the Channel 4 documentary on Cambridge Analytica and the full extent of FB's betrayal of it's users now visible. I can't help thinking how very ironic it was that we in fandom left LJ in droves at the very same time, because of it being on Russian servers.
(in case you have been living in a vacuum look up the channel 4 expose on Cambridge Analytica which is summarised neatly here https://twitter.com/i/moments/976147883329294336)
I've been struggling with other platforms and had decided that it didn't matter where my data was, it would be vulnerable and this pretty much confirms it. The only choice now, I suspect, is if I keep SM at all? And there really is no way the answer to that is no, I value my random and fandom internet friendships too much to let that slip.
I'll take my chances, make sure all my fic is backed up on AO3 and here I am to stay until the next strike down.
On FB I am not so sure. It has my elderly world-distributed family and photos. It also has Russian fandom friends and for them my heart sinks - they fled from here genuinely for their safety and it sickens me to know that the place they remained makes them more vulnerable than they could ever have guessed. It makes me want to delete my FB simply out of principle - but yeah, elderly folks and kids who use the fb messenger to get hold of me in an emergency. I am hopeless at snail mail too.
Ugh. Those are my thinky thoughts on it for now.
In other news, many of my flisties are struggling with horrid illnesses so I need you all to keep cosy and feel better soon. I highly recommend a good dose of J2 at Paleyfest (unless you need to keep your heart rate steady) hecause hoo-boy our boys are pretty.
(in case you have been living in a vacuum look up the channel 4 expose on Cambridge Analytica which is summarised neatly here https://twitter.com/i/moments/976147883329294336)
I've been struggling with other platforms and had decided that it didn't matter where my data was, it would be vulnerable and this pretty much confirms it. The only choice now, I suspect, is if I keep SM at all? And there really is no way the answer to that is no, I value my random and fandom internet friendships too much to let that slip.
I'll take my chances, make sure all my fic is backed up on AO3 and here I am to stay until the next strike down.
On FB I am not so sure. It has my elderly world-distributed family and photos. It also has Russian fandom friends and for them my heart sinks - they fled from here genuinely for their safety and it sickens me to know that the place they remained makes them more vulnerable than they could ever have guessed. It makes me want to delete my FB simply out of principle - but yeah, elderly folks and kids who use the fb messenger to get hold of me in an emergency. I am hopeless at snail mail too.
Ugh. Those are my thinky thoughts on it for now.
In other news, many of my flisties are struggling with horrid illnesses so I need you all to keep cosy and feel better soon. I highly recommend a good dose of J2 at Paleyfest (unless you need to keep your heart rate steady) hecause hoo-boy our boys are pretty.
