brokelee

X doxxing location for everyone except "Political figures" is giving me flashbacks of EU Chat Control law requiring a backdoor to everyone's messages except for politicians.

this is disastrous that you needed to be terminally online and had less than 24h heads up to switch away from twitter showing your country to everyone. awful rollout with no user choice or consent whatsoever. this was the exact case for a terms of service update email that would have allowed some time to delete if you disagreed with the new policy. sad seeing people cheering on further erosion of pseudonymity. such a massive gift for oppressive regimes, im sure this will have chilling effects. remember there were times when it was up to platforms to dismantle manipulation networks and proudly post about it. hasn't been a case since 2022.