Discussion: Online Piracy, Net Neutrality, Killswitch, and Other Internet Issues II

[writer0327]

GOP senator wants to remove a key legal protection for tech giants

 

[Sithborg]

You know, some retrospective is needed when you find yourself siding with bigots.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Guardian - Facebook exempts political ads from ban on making false claims
Firm quietly rescinds policy banning false advertising as UK general election looms

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

Ironic, considering political ads are the worst offenders.

 

[Lily Adler]

The Guardian - Facebook exempts political ads from ban on making false claims
Firm quietly rescinds policy banning false advertising as UK general election looms

 

[Teelie]

The Guardian - Facebook exempts political ads from ban on making false claims
Firm quietly rescinds policy banning false advertising as UK general election looms

Facebook has always been slimy and misleading. They are all in it for the money and there is a lot of money from fraudulent political smear campaigns.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Business Insider - Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy Problems (May 13, 2010)

According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb *****.

 

[Lily Adler]

California's new privacy law could cost companies a total of $55 billion to get in compliance

 

[Lily Adler]

Apple shares mobile Safari data with company connected to China's communist regime

Not a good look Apple.

 

[Lily Adler]

Reddit CEO questions Zuckerberg’s calls for online regulation

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

JUST A REMINDER...

The NY AG estimates that 9 million plus comments regarding support for the repeal of net neutrality were made by various consulting and lobbying firms. They used the names of addresses of real people, (alive and dead) to make comments showing support of the repeal. So far, their investigation has shown from real commenters that the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats support net neutrality. Up to 9.5 million net neutrality comments were made with stolen identities

 

[Snow Queen]

Wow, what a weird coincidence that is absolutely not identity theft in order to push the interests of corporations at the expense of people. I'm glad they have such a passion for democracy.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Wow, what a weird coincidence that is absolutely not identity theft in order to push the interests of corporations at the expense of people. I'm glad they have such a passion for democracy.

And it happened out in the open... A YEAR AGO.

Think about that.

 

[Sithborg]

Personally, I find Zuckerberg trying to rewrite history about why Facebook was created is hilarious. He is such an ash flash.

 

[Teelie]

Facebook is all about the money. It makes it off personal data it sells. Privacy is the last thing Zuckerberg is concerned with.

 

[Iceman]

The Guardian - Facebook exempts political ads from ban on making false claims
Firm quietly rescinds policy banning false advertising as UK general election looms

So they are choosing to actively support potential future leaders in getting to rule while deceiving normal people. Nice.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Vanity Fair - JACK DORSEY MAXED OUT HIS DONATION TO TULSI GABBARD AFTER THE FIRST DEBATE (July 16, 2019)
The Twitter CEO gave the controversial Democratic congresswoman $5,600—and donated $1,000 to Andrew Yang.



More money for bots and astroturfers I guess. Like Dr. Ian Malcolm said in Jurassic Park, life finds a way.

 

[Sithborg]

I would wait and see just exactly what his definition of "political" is.

 

[Snow Queen]

He's running for Governor of California just so he can run false Facebook ads - CNN

Adriel Hampton, a political activist who runs his own marketing firm in San Francisco, registered at his local post office on Monday morning as a candidate for governor of California.

Hampton told CNN Business that he will use his new status as a candidate to run false ads on Facebook about President Trump, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and other Facebook executives. He said he also plans to run false ads on Facebook about executives of Twitter, which also has a policy of not fact-checking ads run by candidates. His goal is to force Facebook to stop allowing politicians to run false ads.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Guardian - How key Republicans inside Facebook are shifting its politics to the right

 

[Sithborg]

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Teelie]

If anything Facebook is what is killing the republic.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NBC News - Trump hosted [Facebook's] Zuckerberg for undisclosed dinner at the White House in October