> users need to act for themselves and optimize their own privacy.
> You need coordination if you want to see the balance changed.
Which is, actually, what the BBC author of TFA is doing, by writing an article as a user, to inform other users so they too can act to protect their privacy.
Seems like industry insiders passing responsibility for their bad practices on to consumers really means they want consumers to stay divided.
> Which is, actually, what the BBC author of TFA is doing, by writing an article as a user, to inform other users so they too can act to protect their privacy.
No. The author only singles out TikTok.
Looks like a paid piece.
> Seems like industry insiders passing responsibility for their bad practices on to consumers really means they want consumers to stay divided.
I think this is why they also encourage the old trope of "It's not just <X>".
It's a truth, but used in a way that makes people feel powerless. Like the war is already lost. It makes people apathetic, because it makes people overwhelmed. It causes the evangelists to quiet themselves as they become exhausted. It normalizes the behavior. It just becomes another one of the many things we're powerless to fight against, so why even try.
I'm not accusing the OP of doing this, but I do want to point out that it is a strategy being used. Not misinformation, not disinformation, but malinformation. Truths used in a specific way, often lacking context. It is the same way people dog whistle, hiding their true intent in normalized speech (it's not a dog whistle if everyone can hear it, that's just a whistle).
what does coordination mean, exactly? is the expectation that a small group of users will band together and somehow lobby more effectively than FAANGs?
Coordination means a movement or organization with some kind of actual leadership and alignment. It could be an advocacy group, union, political organization. There has to be something, likely several somethings, for people to throw their lot in with. Otherwise people with grievances will just simmer and complain impotently.
It can start small, but group membership will eventually have to be large if you want to outgun FAANG. We do have numbers on our side though, they're just scattered.
