In some of the music communities I’m in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They’re all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match… Mark was right to call the people he’s leaching off of fucking idiots.
in my case, personally, the consequences of losing privacy are… just losing privacy itself.
losing the consent on my content to be here or there, before or after,
losing freedom of what i do share and what not,
losing my right to be forgotten,
losing my right to change because people will push the impression they take from my data one day (“you say that, but back then you said this very different thing”, and shove it to you, like a Black Mirror episode),
losing my right to change, select or delete the data i shared,
losing the right not to be doxxed, harassed,
my data being leaked or used for comercial purposes, especially medical, which has already helped corruption in the medical and pharmaceutical industry,
losing the right on my image, my identity, because many people think our shared data can define us, that our shared data is a “mirror” of us, a “digital” instance of us, when it’s just a “pirated copy” of us via social engineering, by hacking consent and personal boundaries.
that data is a very corrupted and selective backup or screenshot taken of us one day, we should be able to change that data or make it not to exist in first place by default.
no matter how paranoid, abstract or crazy these arguments may sound (but sorry if i cause discomfort),
i just think it’s a human right we all should have by default, and then, voluntarily give away or not, in a selective and stoppable way.
in my case, i just don’t want to share info about myself that happily. this applies to megacorporations, but to normal people too.
i know data is the price for using “free” services, but… i just don’t find any service it’s really worth it.
(just my opinion, of course, no mean to force my view on anybody or smth).