@prism I apologize for using what you yourself said before as an example, I mean no offence, I want to answer your question. In a previous message, you said: "these people are violating my rights and your terms of service, fix it or I walk. ". That is an example of an empty threat. As I said, the reasonable answer to that is "feel free to walk". To say, whether on social media or anywhere else "I have stopped using BME because I think there's a risk I will show up on IG/TT tomorrow isn't an empty threat, it isn't a threat at all, it's a statement of fact. I also think I see one of our differences here on another matter. You describe the difficulty with BME as making them not "deserve our trust". I don't trust them at all, and haven't since they started. My reasons are simple, nobody can guarantee anything about the transmission of data, the volunteers who sign up have no filters, and BME, somewhat later, started providing data for model training. Why on earth should I trust them? I always think of it as going down on the street, grabbing the first person I meet and saying "can you come in and help me do X?". The big difference, of course, is that it isn't physical, the person answering presumably wants to answer, and it is easy to stop the call. All those are huge steps forward, but they don't make trust easy. Again, I know the video is being recorded, am not at all sure what the camera can see, and the volunteer may want to be malicious. Those apply to the guy on the street as well as BME, I know, but they still don't make trust easy. They didn't lose my trust because they never had it. As for the alternative, I disagree. The alternative is not to use BME's volunteers except in very limited and staged circumstances, or not to use them at all. That first part of the alternative is what I'm using now.
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