• misk@piefed.social
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    21 hours ago

    They don’t want to deal with the slightest risk of dealing with legal consequences. The ole corpo risk matrix + risk appetite as assessed by lawyers resulted in this, no IT involved ever probably.

    • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      20 hours ago

      Totally, corporations will always go fasch, not just because they want to¹ but because it’s what they are

      But

      can’t trust moderation

      There is low hanging fruit that can be procedurally verified.

      They chose this, obviously, clearly

      ¹they always want to

      • misk@piefed.social
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        19 hours ago

        Your solution doesn’t fully eliminate risk on it’s own and addressing that costs money - that’s about as far as a rational company has to go. They know going nuclear and banning all personal info means not having to deal with it at all and it’s a niche thing that will affect negligible amount of users. Bean counting is the core of meeting regulatory and legal requirements in case of for-profit organisations.