I have a relative who has had her credit card details stolen on so many occassions that we've lost count.
She clicks every email link. She signs up to "tarot of the day" and "spirit guide" text message scams. She buys things like the GeoCleanse. She's been in MLMs and near-cults. She's never met a grift she didn't fall for.
No amount of user training is ever going to get through to this person.
She'll lose her whole life savings before she takes a moment to imagine that an email from her own personal fairy guide *might* be some sort of scam.
It is tempting to say that if you're silly enough, you deserve what you get. But it isn't true. People who make poor decisions need protection too.
This is who I imagine when I imagine the user who needs protection.
We need regulation.
You cannot protect people from their own bad decisions without putting them in prison.
"local jeet" .. I'm an American. I've always been an American, a legal one at that. The last time I was in India was in the 90s, as a Christian missionary.
You immediately bring my race into things instead of addressing any part of an actual argument. What a fucking horrible response, from what I can only assume is a total pathetic piece of shit. Fuck you and whatever the fuck kind of person is obsessed with viewing everything through the lens of my race. It's everything I fucking hate about Fedi.
Unfortunately you shoved your mouth full of the fucking bait so hard that it's impossible to defend you.
@djsumdog @keira_reckons @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @sapphire @mischievoustomato Always mute, not block. Blocking allows blockbots to public announce your blocks and leads to more dogpiling.
@sapphire @keira_reckons @djsumdog @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @mischievoustomato I didn't even know it was optional.
