And, of course, the statements you present are so representative of people on power trips. Looking at the big picture might cut into their power, profits and potency.

I appreciate you “making some noise” – we ALL must make noise about user controls, privacy and terms of service that are top down, corporate and not designed with our interests or needs in mind but the needs of third party advertisers and etc.

I sent many messages to Twitter to ask if they might create a Twitter “expiry” feature for posts. User’s could manually select different expiry options (one hour, one day, one week, one month or never). That way, we could all feel more trust in this system which should be largely ephemeral.

It’s being marketed as a fun tool. But in reality, the things we tweet about aren’t necessarily things we’d post in our blogs. It all seems seductively harmless. But is it?

Also beware of the following coercive statements:

1. If you don’t like it leave
2. It’s corporate, it’s evil. You knew that when you signed up!
3. There’s nothing you can do. They’ll never listen.
4. You shouldn’t be worried unless you’ve got something to hide!
5. Don’t be a buzzkill. Get with the program and shut up.
6. You’re just a complainer.
7. You just want attention.
8. Nobody else seems to have a problem with it.
9. Get a life!
10. You’re just a luddite. You hate technology.

All of these responses have been yielded at some point either by the developers or those who adore authority (in some form or another. Also, think about the particular political ideologies that oppose resistance, activism or challenges to abuse of power. Anybody who would oppose another’s right to challenge inequity is taking part in inequity.

I wrote quite a lengthy post about all of this, which my name above links to.