I don’t know what recent events you mean, but in general I think such rules are overrated. Moderators can remove spam without an explicit rule against spam. Trying to list every possible behavior that a community would reject is never really feasible, we have to rely on human intuition anyway

Ooh, that’s neat. Reminds me of Khanacademy

I think they’re talking about taking down Flock cameras (spyware installed in public places by some for-profit corpo)

that’s horrible, what the hell area do you live in?

this isn’t practical. we can disable some javascript but disabling it entirely would prevent us from using almost all websites, many of which we’re forced to by our employers, governments, etc