What is this thread even. Blocking an entire instance, because a single community member annoyed somebody? I mean, sure, go ahead…

ML simply happens to be the instance hosted by the developers of entire Lemmy, so they spend the bare minimum on post moderation, because they have the bigger picture to focus on.

Now the screenshots show that a “mod” took action. A “mod” can be literally anybody appointed by the current mods of a community. Anybody can create a community, just like on Reddit, so this could literal have been anybody. You’ll encounter similar bans on other instances in time as they grow too, because people are free to make sub-rules to their communities, essentially each “mod” having their little dictatorship.

Anybody’s still surprised? After Epstein’s island?

Good change.

• It helps the less tech savvy users,
• It actually forces developers to write their app properly.

Software should not operate at a privileged level “just in case”, but rather have a well-defined functional boundary.

This is a bit of an overstatement. Brave has competent software developers - they created their Rust-based content blocker, and kept it as open-source. It’s one of the most powerful blocking mechanisms, often working in places where even the rightfully praised uBlock Origin doesn’t (good examples are in YouTube itself last year when they’ve made a big attempt to stop adblocking by changing the underlying mechanism of how ads are being served in videos).

They were perfectly capable of developing advanced software before AI coding agents were a thing. They’re skilled and delivering.

You can’t earn so much money just to expect the responsibility won’t catch up with you. This one is a social responsibility for the impact caused.

If he wanted a low profile, no risk job, he could always opt to not become an executive in the first place.

AI is an effective tool if used correctly. It doesn’t replace thinking, so handle it with care.

Nobody sane would keep bashing a table with a hammer expecting different results than the table breaking under pressure at some point.

I doubt they did - they only speak up for the fictional customer, meanwhile silently complying to whatever government requests user data from them.

They’ll say anything just to distract their users away from them being caught red handed in the act of giving away their data to the governments all around the world.

Classic business marketing.