I think the be careful what you do on Facebook is implied. He’s highlighting something that’s less expected, where you may need to be careful what you do on Windows systems.

I guess most methods of attack on a FOSS projects are independent of the country of origin. But, I could still see them being forced to do things they don’t want in the US, without being able to tell anyone. Hopefully if that ever happened it wouldn’t be too hard to detect, but you never know.

People gotta earn money to survive, I don’t blame the employees for this. And this is not just a case of Meta’s privacy being bad. This is close government involvement with potentially serious impacts and implications across all US based platforms.

It’s not “USA bad, so product bad”, it’s the concern that the US government can do a lot more to US based projects and you probably wont know untill it’s too late.

I don’t remember it like that at all. I saw lots of complaints about the privacy impacts and how ineffective it would be.

Why shouldn’t young children be able to use Discord? I have kids and want them to be able to use it to chat while they play games with friends and with me.

I’ll try to keep them to only chatting with people they know until I think they’re mature enough.

Discord is great (ignoring privacy concerns) for playing games and chatting with some friends. But, it’s crazy that so many people seem to think it’s good for more public information sharing and support.

I could understand that. But, with a bit more context from the article (that I should have included), it’s talking about the criminals that are targeting specific individual children to assault them.

When a parent is anxious about the child enough to install a bloody tracking app. The parents is giving the data about the child to the criminals.

That sounds unlikely and more paranoid than the parents who would install those apps… How many criminals are going to data brokers to track their child targets?