Facebook Tries To Silence Blogger To Cover Up User Data Scandal
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#2Maybe Facebook should consult someone experienced:
https://www.facebook.com/barbrastreisand
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#3Read nothing scandalous about Facebook's behavior. This HN headline doesn't deliver.
There is nothing wrong with the request to keep this quiet for a bit so you can investigate.
This is not uncommon in the security world where vendors get some time to get their stuff together and release a fix. Depending on the severity of the issue and the risk of abuse.
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#4I am fascinated by this. For most of us the situation, that some rogue web app developer is selling his data, is not really news worthy. But somehow this got magnified through the media-echo chamber into a massive "Facebook doesn't care about your data" story. Not quite sure, maybe it is because it fits already the existing narrative, but it is never the less fascinating to watch.
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#5I don't even trust the original blogger is being completely up-front and honest with us. He was going for the sensationalist angle from the start, and to have Facebook call him and ask for his help was just too rich for him to handle.
Ack, coverup! Ack, censorship!
FB needs to find out which app did this. Give them a chance.
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#6facebook being shady, that's so 2003->forever
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#7Read nothing scandalous about Facebook's behavior. This HN headline doesn't deliver. There is nothing wrong with the request to keep this quiet for a bit so you can investigate. This is not uncommon in the security world where vendors get some time to get their stuff together and release a fix. Depending on the severity of the issue and the risk of abuse.
“Oh and by the way, you are not allowed to disclose any part of this conversation; it is a secret that we are even having this conversation”
If this is true, it's practically begging for the blogger to research the law, and publish the whole conversation because FB has no right whatsoever to make such demand. I wouldn't call it scandalous, but it would certainly be a pretty dumb thing to say.
If I had to guess, I would imagine the conversation was slightly different. Perhaps a polite request to keep quiet. Who knows, Facebook is still a teenager in many respects so it's anybody's guess.
Edit: why would anyone downvote this comment? Curious.
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#8I don't even trust the original blogger is being completely up-front and honest with us. He was going for the sensationalist angle from the start, and to have Facebook call him and ask for his help was just too rich for him to handle. Ack, coverup! Ack, censorship! FB needs to find out which app did this. Give them a chance.
Is he not performing the functions of a journalist? And if so, should we not encourage and admire someone's impulse to buck the system (without being destructive or unreasonable)? Why side with Goliath?
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#9I don't even trust the original blogger is being completely up-front and honest with us. He was going for the sensationalist angle from the start, and to have Facebook call him and ask for his help was just too rich for him to handle. Ack, coverup! Ack, censorship! FB needs to find out which app did this. Give them a chance.
Is he not performing the functions of a journalist? And if so, should we not encourage and admire someone's impulse to buck the system (without being destructive or unreasonable)? Why side with Goliath?
We should encourage reporting of the accurate truth, yes. We should discourage link-bait, and over-hype, and sensationalism.
Even RWW should have done a better job looking into what happened, instead of just finding an anti-FB story of the day to post.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is he not performing the functions of a journalist? And if so, should we not encourage and admire someone's impulse to buck the system (without being destructive or unreasonable)? Why side with Goliath?
We should encourage reporting of the accurate truth, yes. We should discourage link-bait, and over-hype, and sensationalism. Even RWW should have done a better job looking into what happened, instead of just finding an anti-FB story of the day to post.
That wouldn't comport with RW's editorial policies, though.