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screenshot from post news: My understanding, for instance, is that the sometimes-anonymous overlords of an individual Mastodon server can actually read your private messages without your knowledge. Though I never sent any private messages while I was on Mastodon, and in fact don’t even know how to do so, when I heard that the level of content moderation on that site extended even to a secret police-like surveillance of users’ private communications, obviously as a lifelong civil libertarian I was deeply concerned.

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screenshot from post news: My understanding, for instance, is that the sometimes-anonymous overlords of an individual Mastodon server can actually read your private messages without your knowledge. Though I never sent any private messages while I was on Mastodon, and in fact don’t even know how to do so, when I heard that the level of content moderation on that site extended even to a secret police-like surveillance of users’ private communications, obviously as a lifelong civil libertarian I was deeply concerned.
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Austin :win3_control_panel: (powerllama@duck.haus)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 01:50:51 UTC Austin :win3_control_panel:
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@darius i really love this is the point these people keep bringing up over and over, while at the same time Bari Weiss is over at twitter just casually perusing through people's dms

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