Hi,
I just discovered this study from "Freedom to tinker" [1] that clearly
shows clinic evidence of psychotic disorders by few web market operators [...]
I think the article referenced may be this:
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfiltration-of-perso...
...and although there are references made to individual health data in the article, I can't see any evidence that would suggest any 'clinical evidence of psychotic disorders', not least because I would suggest 'web market operators' are not the kinds of entities that are capable of having 'minds' from any clinical perspective that I am aware of. Legal personality, yes, but clinical personalities, i think: "no".
I do not think it's appropriate to speculate on the mental health of
people you politically disagree with.
Well, personal tastes, moral judgments and potential for expensive litigation aside, from a professional and methodological perspective, if we are at all interested in producing useful explanations about the behavior of market actors, I think the reasons available for bad behavior are already overdetermined by the characteristics of markets more generally, and the ethical limitations of market-led policies and incentives I hope do not need to be rehearsed in a forum connected to discussing (among other things) the benefits of free software?
/ mat
* Mat Witts [2017-11-26 11:34:23 +0000]:
I just discovered this study from "Freedom to tinker" [1] that clearly
shows clinic evidence of psychotic disorders by few web market operators [...]
I think the article referenced may be this:
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/11/15/no-boundaries-exfiltration-of-perso...
thank you! my footnote was incomplete
I was too stressed by concurrent activities at the time of writing and I've an old CPU and too few RAM: in this conditions sometimes I'm overloaded or get OOM exceptions... sorry :-S
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Ciao Giovanni
Hi.
* Mat Witts [2017-11-26 11:34:23 +0000]:
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I think the reasons available for bad behavior are already overdetermined by the characteristics of markets more generally,
I _suspect_ that when talking with policy makers they need to be persuaded *also* using interesting studies like the Freedom to Tinker one _and_ the "pizza effect" one
in particular, as I wrote, I'm really curious to see if and how GDPR will be able to protect users "from themselves"
and the ethical limitations of market-led policies and incentives I hope do not need to be rehearsed in a forum connected to discussing (among other things) the benefits of free software?
ehrm... I *fear* we need a _constant_ reharshal of this kind of discussion because the phenomenology of "private computing agency" is complex and every new "discovery" may help understand it
I personally know free software supporters (I'm not talking specifically of FSFE supporters) who do not understand the dangers of proprietary javascripts
Ciao Giovanni