Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto
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Re: Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto
#2This article is so poorly written that I couldn't tell which version was the original and which the revised (or whether there were one or two revisions) until I'd read it three or four times. After I'd figured that out (I think), I had to go back again to understand what point the author was trying to make.
Then again, it's just Mashable. I don't know why I worked at it so hard.
Re: Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto
#3If Gmail reads private emails to target ads [1], why would people think that Facebook isn't doing the same thing? Also many companies (including Facebook) have agreed to share hashes and cooperate to "remove extremist content from their websites" [2]. It would be naive to think that they are excluding private messages from their searches.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/15/gmail-sca... [2] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-internet-extremism-databas...
Re: Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto
#4Facebook sat idly by during an election cycle as their platform was used to propagate fake news because blocking this stuff would amount to censorship, and now they suddenly have the moral imperative to police your private messages? I am so glad I quit Facebook a long time ago. They are the big tech company I like the least.
Re: Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto
#5How could anyone not know that your private messages represent valuable data to Facebook that they're going to use for ad revenue and service improvement?
Your messages are not private on any service that doesn't guarantee privacy. Most services do not.
Heck, your use of an app is often recorded and saved.
Using these services and presuming to be in private is foolish. People other than Facebook don't respect the privacy when they copy and paste your messages to a friend of theirs. Written messages have never been a way to conduct private business that you don't want leaked or passed on to a third party.
Re: Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto
#6Facebook sat idly by during an election cycle as their platform was used to propagate fake news because blocking this stuff would amount to censorship, and now they suddenly have the moral imperative to police your private messages? I am so glad I quit Facebook a long time ago. They are the big tech company I like the least.
> because blocking this stuff would amount to censorship
Facebook fired its "news curators" in response to criticism of it suppressing "news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential 'trending' news section" [1]. This happened in May of last year.
[1] http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-supp...
Re: Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto
#7If Gmail reads private emails to target ads [1], why would people think that Facebook isn't doing the same thing? Also many companies (including Facebook) have agreed to share hashes and cooperate to "remove extremist content from their websites" [2]. It would be naive to think that they are excluding private messages from their searches. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/15/gmail-sca... [2] http://…
I forgot that google did that, but facebook was just in your face with it. I was talking to a friend on facebook about some ice climbing and if it was ok for a beginner, and very shortly after I saw ads on my facebook for ice climbing lessons. With google the worst I see if I search for something sometimes I see ads for those.
Re: Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto
#8Facebook sat idly by during an election cycle as their platform was used to propagate fake news because blocking this stuff would amount to censorship, and now they suddenly have the moral imperative to police your private messages? I am so glad I quit Facebook a long time ago. They are the big tech company I like the least.
> because blocking this stuff would amount to censorship
Or because they were raking in money off the back of it.
Re: Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto
#9What is Mark Zuckerberg up to right now? He's doing a lot of of outreach, and even meet and greet tours. It's a bit like he's on the campaign trail, planning on running for political office, but maybe not exactly that.
e.g.:
https://www.ft.com/content/b0a6481e-d20a-11e6-9341-7393bb2e1...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/01/04/mark-zucker...
Re: Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto
#10What is Mark Zuckerberg up to right now? He's doing a lot of of outreach, and even meet and greet tours. It's a bit like he's on the campaign trail, planning on running for political office, but maybe not exactly that. e.g.: https://www.ft.com/content/b0a6481e-d20a-11e6-9341-7393bb2e1... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/01/04/mark-zucker...
He's banking on millenials to carry him into office in 20+ years like the boomers did Trump.