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Post by heavenlyblue »

jamesfisher wrote: post #248
nikolay wrote: post #154

I think Zuck is too full of himself. People often get confused that their success means that they are wise, and that we should listen to them. Should we as well follow the thought leadership of drug cartels and the Saudi monarchs?

If this post had been written by an anonymous dev, it would not be read as "full of himself". I think the "full of himself" subtext comes from the readers, not the writer. This doesn't stop the possibility that Zuck actually is full of himself.

You can give an anonymous dev the benefit of the doubt that they are probably not expecting millions of people to be influenced by the bullshit they are saying.

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Post by ncmncm »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #229
ncmncm wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are disastrous for democracy.

It's more nuanced than that. Did WhatsApp and Facebook help elect right-wing autocrats? Yes. Are WhatsApp and Facebook also helping protestors against right-wing autocrats organize and protest? Also yes.

It looks to me like the balance is very, very far to the right.

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Post by puranjay »

ncmncm wrote: post #362
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more nuanced than that. Did WhatsApp and Facebook help elect right-wing autocrats? Yes. Are WhatsApp and Facebook also helping protestors against right-wing autocrats organize and protest? Also yes.

It looks to me like the balance is very, very far to the right.

True. You can convincingly argue that Facebook et al are a net negative for our society

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Post by derangedHorse »

cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #52

>"at some point in the 2020s, we will get breakthrough augmented reality glasses that will redefine our relationship with technology." Constant video surveillance, direct-to-eyes on-glass advertising, targeted advertising beamed on every approved spot, interests profiling via retina movements/focus and God knows what else will undoubtedly come about if AR glasses become "cool" and ubiquitous like mobile phones. Maybe…

I don’t know why you think those technologies will show up in a new platform and dominate our society. We could make analogs to those things now and they either haven’t been implemented (because we have the sense to not let it be popular) or are not in a form to ruin our lives (yet) — audio surveillance, web tracking for ads, haptic feedbacks for mobile devices to tell us when someone “undesirable” is in our presence, etc

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Post by wolf550e »

nikolay wrote: post #154

I think Zuck is too full of himself. People often get confused that their success means that they are wise, and that we should listen to them. Should we as well follow the thought leadership of drug cartels and the Saudi monarchs?

https://xkcd.com/1827/

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Post by davidy123 »

ravenstine wrote: post #311
davidy123 wrote: post #289

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This. There are real initiatives to support actual decentralization, not "decentralization" that means using any service, as long as Facebook owns it.

Decentralization is just taking the place that blockchain took for a while before too many people lost faith in it.

Decentralization as a general idea predates blockchain. VRM/personal data lockers, for example.
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