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Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

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Re: Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

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News: Zuckerberg is a thieving lying snake. Facebook is cancer. As long as these snakes don't go to prison, this will not stop/end.

Can we please stop with the hyperbole ? Facebook absolutely deserves to be regulated but right now nothing they or Zuckerberg has done is remotely illegal.

Don't confuse legality with morality.

Re: Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

#12

News: Zuckerberg is a thieving lying snake. Facebook is cancer. As long as these snakes don't go to prison, this will not stop/end.

Can we please stop with the hyperbole ? Facebook absolutely deserves to be regulated but right now nothing they or Zuckerberg has done is remotely illegal.

Why is this downvoted?

Re: Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

#14
Some of these documents have been made public before late last year. All of them seem to still be related to the Six4Three lawsuit:

> The documents stem from a California court case between the social network and the little-known startup Six4Three, which sued Facebook in 2015 after the company announced plans to cut off access to some types of user data. Six4Three’s app, Pikinis, which soft-launched in 2013, relied on that data to allow users to easily find photos of their friends in bathing suits.

Re: Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we please stop with the hyperbole ? Facebook absolutely deserves to be regulated but right now nothing they or Zuckerberg has done is remotely illegal.

Why is this downvoted?

It’s a false conclusion. The OP is making a moral/ethical statement, and says that prison time is the only way to motivate the wrongdoers to conform. That’s different than asserting that a crime under current laws has taken place.

Re: Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we please stop with the hyperbole ? Facebook absolutely deserves to be regulated but right now nothing they or Zuckerberg has done is remotely illegal.

Don't confuse legality with morality.

And people should only go to prison when they commit a crime.

The rule of law does not centre around who is nice or not.

Re: Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

#17
Please read this. This isn't just another routine news that Zuck lied and Facebook is evil. They had access to more than 4.000 previously unreleased documents.

Democracy is at stake. Facebook and its subsidiaries are destroying our societies. The problem is global. Not because it is happening in a far away country you shouldn't care. You can already see the increase in Amazon deforestation due to Bolsonaro election in Brazil.

Re: Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

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post #17

Please read this. This isn't just another routine news that Zuck lied and Facebook is evil. They had access to more than 4.000 previously unreleased documents. Democracy is at stake. Facebook and its subsidiaries are destroying our societies. The problem is global. Not because it is happening in a far away country you shouldn't care. You can already see the increase in Amazon deforestation due to Bolsonaro election i…

You can't blame Facebook for the rise of right wing leaders.

It's been happening in US, Italy, Israel, Poland, Hungary, Phillipines and now Brazil and the trend will continue whilst those leaders offer strength, populism and can point to immigrants as the cause of society's problems.

Re: Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

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post #17

Please read this. This isn't just another routine news that Zuck lied and Facebook is evil. They had access to more than 4.000 previously unreleased documents. Democracy is at stake. Facebook and its subsidiaries are destroying our societies. The problem is global. Not because it is happening in a far away country you shouldn't care. You can already see the increase in Amazon deforestation due to Bolsonaro election i…

You can't blame Facebook for the rise of right wing leaders. It's been happening in US, Italy, Israel, Poland, Hungary, Phillipines and now Brazil and the trend will continue whilst those leaders offer strength, populism and can point to immigrants as the cause of society's problems.

Yes, and a corrupt left-wing leader could use the exact same techniques. Like the guns they put on the back of Toyota trucks in third world countries, this tracking stuff has no particular allegiance.
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