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What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by leni536 »

sumeno wrote: post #83
Broken_Hippo wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Folks have tried starting alternatives to facebook: I think the real problem is that facebook is more similiar to a phone company that only connects its users to others that have the same phone company. It was the only game in town for a while, so this has made it into a near-monopoly. If facebook was required to have some level of across-platform access, this might level the playing field and give us actual choice.…

Facebook has never been the only game in town. It has just been and continues to be the best game in town.

And the best by being the largest...

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by leni536 »

qrbLPHiKpiux wrote: post #76
suhastech wrote: post #40

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Agreed. I always tell people I know to atleast use an email address with their own domain, if they can't set up their own server. https://thehorcrux.com/about/#advise

In one line, you said Google disabled your account. In another line, you say have your own domain and let FastMail or google apps manage your mail. I don't understand ./?

1. You can still backup your email if you want to.

2. You get to keep your email address if you ever get banned.

I do not think there any benefit in operating your own mail server.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by to3m »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #68
khedoros1 wrote: post #33

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We're there, and have been for years. The employees aren't paid to be "nice", and if you don't have a contract with the company storing your data, then you're making a mistake relying on them. Rely on them for convenient access to your files...but not as your prime copy, or your essential backup. You use their services at their whim.

>The employees aren't paid to be "nice" // Why not? Our UK micro-business's (PLC's) internal motto is "be nice" seems to work well.

How many billions is your UK micro business worth?

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by 659087 »

olavk wrote: post #61
King-Aaron wrote: post #41

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I know it's not directly on-topic, but I find it amazing that people end up copping a seven-day ban for a bit of titty, but then nothing is done for those videos of people killing puppies and shit.

On the other hand, I find it interesting that everytime somebody is complaining about censorship on Facebook, they are almost always following up with complaints of some other objectionable content not being censored. The think about the nipple ban is it is a really simple rule and it is really easy to decide if a picture contains a nipple or not.

I suspect Zuckerberg had a traumatic breast feeding experience as a teenager, and decided if he can't do it anymore, nobody can.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by 659087 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #62
DarkKomunalec wrote: post #36

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'If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product' This adage is beginning to show its age - virtually all services that can get their hands on your data end up selling it nowadays, whether you pay them or not. I heard even some restaurant chains sell data on who they served and when.

Indeed. It's time to simply say: in surveillance capitalism, you are the product.

The product in a factory farm kind of way.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by ivanche »

NuDinNou wrote: post #65
Jaruzel wrote: post #9

I know the article is old, but the author showed a severe lack of common sense. Facebook is NOT a backup. If you only keep stuff in your Facebook account, then it is as 'at risk' as if you only kept on the hard-drive of your ageing laptop that you bought on discount in Walmart/ASDA ten years ago. This oft quoted adage also applies: 'If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product'. The author seemed t…

> Facebook is NOT a backup. If you only keep stuff in your Facebook account That's not what a back up is. Facebook can be a backup for your photos.

It can't be. Try to upload some hi-res photo and then download it from FB. Now check the resolution of that downloaded photo.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by hashhar »

leni536 wrote: post #91
sumeno wrote: post #83

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Facebook has never been the only game in town. It has just been and continues to be the best game in town.

And the best by being the largest...

Orkut and MySpace were both a lot larger than when Facebook started. Facebook did some great things and innovated during their early years. But yeah, nowadays they can just coast by being marginally better than any new product.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by InitialLastName »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #56
King-Aaron wrote: post #41

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I know it's not directly on-topic, but I find it amazing that people end up copping a seven-day ban for a bit of titty, but then nothing is done for those videos of people killing puppies and shit.

There are plenty of racist extremist kooks on FB, and their posts are rarely - if ever - banned. Apparently a stray nipple is more of a threat to society.

A stray nipple is a cheaper binary test than "above some threshold of ideological hatefulness"

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by jjnoakes »

InitialLastName wrote: post #98
TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #56

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There are plenty of racist extremist kooks on FB, and their posts are rarely - if ever - banned. Apparently a stray nipple is more of a threat to society.

A stray nipple is a cheaper binary test than "above some threshold of ideological hatefulness"

"cheaper binary test" shouldn't be the way to decide though.
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