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rain wrote

It turns out you can just get rid of all the trans people, they put themselves on lists. They trusted Facebook, the dumb fucks.

I never trusted Facebook, and I’m not trivially easy to track back to real world identity from any of my socials. That said, I find myself wishing I had just started with DIY hrt. It would be trivial for anyone with access to prescription records to determine I was trans and toss me on a list.

Or they could just ask the public to report trans people in their community. I’m well enough known that someone would turn me in. So maybe it doesn’t matter in the end; we can’t hide, so it’s time to get ready to fight.

Maybe past time.

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twovests OP wrote

(You probably already know this, but I'm referencing Zuckerberg saying "They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks" regarding Facebook's users.)

I’m not trivially easy to track back to real world identity from any of my socials

I'm concerned about the data that Facebook holds, but otherwise did not regularly give away without a warrant. I'm worried about the Trump admin newly being able to ask, e.g. "Give us the user ID, profile name, and bio history of every single IG user, so we can filter(bio.contains('🏳️‍⚧️'), insta_bios) on it. Capiche?"

And from there, take the email, IP, etc of that. I imagine, even with great opsec, there's nothing that trumps the richness of data Meta has on people.

Maybe Facebook already had regular data dumps for the FBI, or maybe warrants actually mattered. I really don't know.

That said, I also totally feel you there. I wish I started with DIY HRT both to stay off lists, but also because I'd have been on it a decade earlier. At least, Planned Parenthood won't be cozying up to Trump.

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