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Well, I tried posting the comment with the last paragraph removed to test your theory. As expected, within 24hrs, someone downvoted it. I agree with author of the gist on many poin…

I dont have any issue with editing comments. I use the edit feature constantly myself. Im just making clear I am not trying to cause agitation. Thats not the intent. I try to be sp…

Its not a duplicate. @mercer suggested the last paragraph should be removed, so thats what I did. Alas, the edit period had expired. Edit: Notice that youve toned down your origina…

Its encouraging to be reminded that still not everyone who uses Apple hardware runs MacOS exclusively. https://sivers.org/openbsd http://www.sacrideo.us/openbsd-on-macbook/ However…

https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-t... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

Comments from me that are skeptical of Apple are always downvoted. Complaining is acceptable but doubting is not. I have tested this over the years and it is remarkably consistent.…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16770774 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/users-would-have-p...

Its encouraging to be reminded that still not everyone who uses Apple hardware runs MacOS exclusively. https://sivers.org/openbsd http://www.sacrideo.us/openbsd-on-macbook/ However…

"... both incidental and replaceable ." Sometimes it seems like there is an underlying, unspoken presumption that no progress, no innovation making use of the internet could occur …

This author located in the UK believes FB should be broken up: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/03/26/zuckerberg-m... He believes that Facebook's board is susceptible to S…

He has also announced that he now supports the Honest Ads Act. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy/facebook... Perhaps he will announce next that he supports compet…

There really is a feeling of "too little, too late". Not in the sense FB cannot make improvements. Of course they can. What is too little, too late is reversing the direction that …

How about making ads go away ? FB appears locked in to a business model that relies on continually pushing the limits of invasiveness. Does that model have a breaking point? Does F…

Naive questions: What has been the US legal/regulatory framework governing "privacy" that telecomunications operators have had to work within for the past thirty years? Has Faceboo…

What permission does the user give FB in terms of how FB can use the messages? The message might "disappear" after a few seconds, but at that point FB may have already extracted th…

Heres an interesting "letter to Mark Zuckerberg" from a professor of health informatics who has worked with the NHS for the last 34 years.1 It discusses the issue of "the creepy li…

I do not see the issue with this letter to Zuckerberg as suggested by some of the comments here. I see the issue as one of Zuckerbergs choice of words , how he is portraying the fa…

Building 8, who is responsible for this project, is under the direction of the same person who wrote the memo about "questionable practices", incidental deaths and "connecting peop…

Send your old comms with Zuckerberg to the FTC for safekeeping. The three sources asked to remain anonymous for fear of "angering Zuckerberg". But they still wanted to share their …

Mike Myers (Dr Evil) thinks Zuckerberg is more hated than Donald Trump. https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/mike-myers...

Apparently Sandberg went on a press tour giving five or so interviews, apologising according to script in each one. But apparently she veered a bit off script in one of them, on th…

The folks in Myanmar apparently have taken issue with how Zuckerberg referred to FB's "tools" and "systems" for detection of hate speech in his Vox interview. They sent him a lette…