Facebook are 'morally bankrupt, pathological liars' – NZ Privacy Commissioner • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook are 'morally bankrupt, pathological liars' – NZ Privacy Commissioner

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Post by sgjohnson » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 1:12 AM UTC

I agree, they are morally bankrupt pathalogical liars, but as a platform, they should bear absolutely no responsibility for what their users post. Nor they should comply with any governments’ request to turn over information on who shared what.

Facebook is an evil, yes, but governments are a bigger one. I trust facebook more than I trust my government, and I don’t trust facebook to the extent that I’ve deleted my account and ublocked all their cookies and integrations.

Re: Facebook are 'morally bankrupt, pathological liars' – NZ Privacy Commissioner

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Post by sgjohnson » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 1:59 AM UTC

NedIsakoff wrote: post #9

I’m amused this is coming from NZ. In some parts they are over reacting to the recent shooting and the social media aspects of it. I mean this is a country that made distributing the NZ shooter manifesto a harsher crime (up to 14 years in jail) then distributing child porn (up to 10 years). Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/5087363/new-zealand-manifesto-ban... https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&ob…

10 years for posession of content that the government doesn’t agree with. That’s impressive.

Re: Facebook are 'morally bankrupt, pathological liars' – NZ Privacy Commissioner

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Post by pard68 » Mon, Apr 08, 2019, 12:55 PM UTC

I agree with the sentiment but for very different reasons.

I've been pursuing a reddit lookalike called tildes recently and a number of NZ and Oz people are on there. I was absolutely floored, as an American, with how okay they are with government sanctioned censorship. So in light of my recent realizations this reasoning makes a bit more sense to me, though I still can't agree with it.