We can have a real conversation about implicit vs. explicit consent, the boundaries of consent, opt-in and opt-out, and what consent in the fediverse looks like.
That's a real conversation that needs to happen and that multiple people have been attempting to have long before this.
These issues? Not how you do it. This is how you make sure that all of the people who you would want to be involved in that discussion and who might actually do something in that space run screaming for the hills.