Re: [Social-discuss] Control own privacy, posted by _others_

[Jason Self]

Ian Denhardt <address@hidden> wrote ..
    
> Here's the problem I see with this: I'm running a gnu social instance on 
> my own server, quite literally a PC sitting under my bed. How do you 
> justify saying I can't make your name, as it appears on my website, 
> running on my hardware, a link to anywhere I please? Supposing I don't 
> have an instance of GNU Social, I just have a website. should I not be 
> allowed to manually link to various people, who may or may not want me 
> to do so? It's possible it would be impolite of me, but ultimately 
> there's a free speech issue there.
> 
> I'm not arguing privacy isn't important, but there's a conflict. 
> Certainly we need access controls so that I can control who can access 
> what on my profile, But it feels a bit draconian for you to be able to 
> have access controls that determine what I can post on my website. I 
> don't think I would run the software at all if it allowed for this, or 
> since it is free software, I would simply remove the functionality.

+1

IMO, a person's right to privacy does not extend to controlling the actions of 
others.