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This company is one of the main reasons I don't allow anything about my kids to be posted online. I'm trying to keep them out of the wannabe right-wing dictator's databases. Which is a real shame for some family members that want to see my kids growing up. But we're the land of the free, can't regulate our brave job creators.

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I tried this way back in the late 90s with my kid. Since we did not sign the paper work granting the school to post the kiddo's information, they went on to say that would mean that their "artwork" would not be able to be displayed along with the rest of the class in public places like the post office, public library, etc. They refused to be more granular with personal data/photographs and school work. Of course back then, social media didn't exist so nobody could comprehend the desire to protect private data from becoming public.

I'm curious what it's like for parents navigating those waters in today's online world

What is there to navigate? I similarly didn't sign the paper to authorize the school to use pictures of my kids so they don't use pictures where my kids show on their Facebook account.

They do however display their art in the hallway.

How do you feel about services like Tinybeans?

I can vouch for them zero, but we use them for more-or-less the same reasons. It's still "online", but probably the same degree as an iCloud photo store.

>wannabe right-wing dictator's

Don't kid yourself that ideology is a protection. Who turns the key of the turnkey facist state is still an open question. Probably less resistance if you /claim/ to be fighting the extreme right at the moment. May well flip and be done by the /claim/ of fighting commnunism.

Stand on principle. Always. Especially in favour of those you loathe. Ignore the politics surrounding the principle if you really don't want a dictatorship. Sadly you can fully expect to be accused of being a supporter of Saddam, Assad, Gaddafi, Putin, Hamas, paedophile rings, organised crime and in general everything evil when you do the principled right thing.

Wannabe left-wing dictators would be okay, though?

Both are bad obviously but as an immigrant of color this company's links to Thiel and white nationalist networks makes me more afraid of this tool in their hands.

Clearview was used heavily to prosecute J6 participants. I suspect their political capital is high on both side of the aisle now.

of course, left-wing dictators work for the benefit of humankind

Poe’s law got me here again. I think you’re joking but plausibly someone could say this and not care that they used the word "dictator".

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