{"id":273,"date":"2010-08-20T05:07:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T09:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:35:15","slug":"wil-weaton-says-dont-be-a-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Wil Weaton says, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be a dick&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.typepad.com\/wwdnbackup\/2010\/08\/random-thoughts-from-vancouver.html\">he&#8217;s looking at you<\/a>, Facebook.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Facebook continues its all-out assault on its users&#8217; privacy with the new Places feature, which is (of course) on by default, with no warning. <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5616395\/how-to-disable-facebook-places\">Lifehacker has the lowdown<\/a>, including how to turn it off. As I&#8217;ve said before, if you dig Facebook, I&#8217;m not going to give you a hard time about it, but I strongly  encourage you to turn this feature off. The world doesn&#8217;t need to know where you live, and when you are (and aren&#8217;t) home. Also: Fuck you, Facebook, for turning this on by default and not warning your users about it. You&#8217;re one of the most profoundly immoral companies in the history of the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, reason 424 I&#8217;m not on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and he&#8217;s looking at you, Facebook. Facebook continues its all-out assault on its users&#8217; privacy with the new Places feature, which is (of course) on by default, with no warning. Lifehacker has the lowdown, including how to turn it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=273\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}