Why We Disagree with The New York Times

Post by atomic77 » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 4:48 PM UTC

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #8

jacobsheehy wrote: post #2

It reads like a long defensive argument, "how else did you expect us to make huge sums of money"? It is exactly as tone-deaf and legalese as you would expect. There is no new information here; Facebook says legal contracts actually protect your data so it can't go anywhere, "just trust us", etc. > These partners signed agreements that prevented people’s Facebook information from being used for any other purpose than…

... and thus begins a new series of regulations designed to pierce the plausible deniability of "terms of service". People complain about GDPR and other regulations, but they are created to close loopholes that were abused by companies like Facebook.

Post by seanalltogether » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 4:50 PM UTC

Post by JumpCrisscross » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 4:52 PM UTC

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #8

jacobsheehy wrote: post #2

It reads like a long defensive argument, "how else did you expect us to make huge sums of money"? It is exactly as tone-deaf and legalese as you would expect. There is no new information here; Facebook says legal contracts actually protect your data so it can't go anywhere, "just trust us", etc. > These partners signed agreements that prevented people’s Facebook information from being used for any other purpose than…

... and thus begins a new series of regulations designed to pierce the plausible deniability of "terms of service". People complain about GDPR and other regulations, but they are created to close loopholes that were abused by companies like Facebook.

Post by _jal » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 4:53 PM UTC

jacobsheehy wrote: post #2

It reads like a long defensive argument, "how else did you expect us to make huge sums of money"? It is exactly as tone-deaf and legalese as you would expect. There is no new information here; Facebook says legal contracts actually protect your data so it can't go anywhere, "just trust us", etc. > These partners signed agreements that prevented people’s Facebook information from being used for any other purpose than…

Post by kreddor » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 4:53 PM UTC

newscracker wrote: post #16

davidw wrote: post #6

The fact that you can't read messages (without switching to 'desktop mode') on their mobile web app is such horse shit. Yuck.

Either that or you can go to the basic version at mbasic.facebook.com for an even poorer (though somewhat better in some senses, like having messages integrated) experience.