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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/26/2014 10:01 AM, Zoltan Boka
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<div>In my view, consent obtained under duress is no consent at
all. It is true of course that one can simply forgo twitter and
thus withhold consent. It is also true that this approach could
be applied to other realms, but the implication- that your only
choices are implied consent to every possible application and
use of your information or abstinence from technology bothers
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<div>Twitter is merely optional- but many things in life are not
(and even with twitter for some it may be a key to their
livelihood and thus mandatory) so to say that you can withhold
consent through abstinence is a false choice, and for some its
no choice at all. <br>
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Twitter use may not be entirely optional based on other life
choices, but I can't think of many choices that would mandate
sharing location data with Twitter, which is a separate option.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/alqaeda/status/24525767471">https://twitter.com/alqaeda/status/24525767471</a><br>
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It is true that many people seem genuinely confused about the
fact that Twitter, Tumblr and public Facebook posts are public
broadcast platforms, open to all by default (although with various
options to limit what others can see). See the periodic freakouts
about not truly being able to "block" people from seeing public
posts on these platforms.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mashable.com/2013/12/12/twitter-blocking-mute/">http://mashable.com/2013/12/12/twitter-blocking-mute/</a><br>
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I honestly don't know what to do about these people. They seem
to have a genuine cognitive dissonance about the idea: "It's like
having my own newspaper!" "No, you can't read what I wrote!"<br>
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-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:grvsmth@panix.com">grvsmth@panix.com</a>
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