They are allowed to vote, but everybody now has to present a valid form of id when casting their vote.
The issue is there’s some kind of veteran card that’s not considered a valid form of id for things like this. In the same way that student id cards aren’t valid.
The Sun is reporting they’re on a six figure salary and were due to be presenting on Friday, but were removed.
Thanks for the explanation, that’s really helpful.
Most of the conversations Ive seen around this are about giving the user more tools to curate their experience by being able to block at an instance level. But as you say, that doesn’t stop predatory instances scraping your data anyway, neither does defederating really.
The fact seems to be that if Meta (or chat GPT for that matter) want your data, you can’t really stop them. However, your point about the whole licensing angle is really interesting, I wonder if there’s a solution somewhere involving licensing your own content?
Feels kind of weird to think about but what would happen if your account had its own unique creative commons license? I guess the issue would be proving your data was stolen, but if literally everyone on the fediverse did it, any indication of fediverse related data being used by someone like meta could incur some kind of legal action?
Dunno, I don’t know anything about how licensing works.
Out of interest, does blocking go both ways? If I block Meta, I can’t see their content, but can they still see mine?
If they can, blocking does nothing to prevent them harvesting data on me does it?
I’d be pretty surprised if this didn’t have something to do with the Great Green Wall project, even if it’s a knock on effect of that work.