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by ashwinsundar 320 days ago

    But how many of you wouldn’t hook up your website to Google?
Me. https://ashwinsundar.com/robots.txt

Your computer doesn't have the right to scrape what I say or do anything with it.

    I know one of the primary reasons that I do anything online is to provide an outlet for someone else to see it. If I didn’t want someone else to see it, I’d write it down on my notebook, not on the public web.
Sounds like the same schpiel from the anti-privacy advocates who think that we should all expose everything we're doing because "you should have nothing to hide".

https://archive.is/WjbcU

This article was written for Wired by Moxie Marlinspike in 2013, who went on to later develop the Signal protocol.

I don't want my thoughts or ideas spread across the web promiscuously. The things I say publicly are curated and full of context. That's why I have my own website, and don't post elsewhere.

I'm not playing the same game you are, which appears to be to post liberally and have loose thoughts to maximize "reach".