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Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug

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Re: Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug

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So you are friends with a person on Facebook, and this bug allowed them to see your private email address? I don't see what people are so outraged by. If you're friends with someone on Facebook, why is your email address so private? And what will these Facebook friends DO know that they know your email address?!? If I was snarky, I would say if you can't share your email address with a friend, choose better friends.…

No, this is more like you are friends with your conservative Republican boss on facebook, but you are also a member of an abortion rights activist group. You've never disclosed that activity to Facebook, but they harvested your data via one of those sleazy commercial personal information brokers and added it to your 'shadow profile' without your knowledge. Then one day your boss downloads his data using that feature,…

Yeah, nice false stereotyping with the contrived conservative smearing.

In reality, we all know that the left are far more intolerant than the majority of conservatives. And they are also the ones who get in your face with vile insults, screams, graffiti, vandalism, and any other behavior that passes when one believes their desired ends justifies their means.

It is far more believable that a leftist would be likely to call for and delight in the firing of someone who holds moral values. Conservatives generally just want to be left alone, and they would not in good conscience vindictively fire someone.

And for ends justifying the means, look no further than apologists for murders by folks like Stalin, Lenin, and Guevara. Some actually do say that was what was needed in order for revolution. Disgusting, but that's what they say.

Re: Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug

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No, this is more like you are friends with your conservative Republican boss on facebook, but you are also a member of an abortion rights activist group. You've never disclosed that activity to Facebook, but they harvested your data via one of those sleazy commercial personal information brokers and added it to your 'shadow profile' without your knowledge. Then one day your boss downloads his data using that feature,…

Yeah, nice false stereotyping with the contrived conservative smearing. In reality, we all know that the left are far more intolerant than the majority of conservatives. And they are also the ones who get in your face with vile insults, screams, graffiti, vandalism, and any other behavior that passes when one believes their desired ends justifies their means. It is far more believable that a leftist would be likely t…

I don't for one moment believe that 90% of Americans have one of two sets of beliefs, is this why this is contrived? This does read like a flame, I assure you it's not, puzzled foreigner.

Re: Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug

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Yeah, nice false stereotyping with the contrived conservative smearing. In reality, we all know that the left are far more intolerant than the majority of conservatives. And they are also the ones who get in your face with vile insults, screams, graffiti, vandalism, and any other behavior that passes when one believes their desired ends justifies their means. It is far more believable that a leftist would be likely t…

I don't for one moment believe that 90% of Americans have one of two sets of beliefs, is this why this is contrived? This does read like a flame, I assure you it's not, puzzled foreigner.

It's contrived because his scenario of a conservative business owner firing a liberal employee is something he made up as an example to fit into his worldview.

In reality, the political witchhunts and thought policing are overwhelmingly leftist behaviors.

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No, this is more like you are friends with your conservative Republican boss on facebook, but you are also a member of an abortion rights activist group. You've never disclosed that activity to Facebook, but they harvested your data via one of those sleazy commercial personal information brokers and added it to your 'shadow profile' without your knowledge. Then one day your boss downloads his data using that feature,…

Yeah, nice false stereotyping with the contrived conservative smearing. In reality, we all know that the left are far more intolerant than the majority of conservatives. And they are also the ones who get in your face with vile insults, screams, graffiti, vandalism, and any other behavior that passes when one believes their desired ends justifies their means. It is far more believable that a leftist would be likely t…

Oh for fuck's sake. Feel free to change "conservative" to "vegan Kucinich voter" and "abortion rights" to "baby seal hunting club" if it makes you feel better.

It's just the first example that came to mind of an affiliation that this bug might expose that the user would really rather not have been.

> Stalin, Lenin, and Guevara

Wow.

Re: Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug

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No, this is more like you are friends with your conservative Republican boss on facebook, but you are also a member of an abortion rights activist group. You've never disclosed that activity to Facebook, but they harvested your data via one of those sleazy commercial personal information brokers and added it to your 'shadow profile' without your knowledge. Then one day your boss downloads his data using that feature,…

Yeah, nice false stereotyping with the contrived conservative smearing. In reality, we all know that the left are far more intolerant than the majority of conservatives. And they are also the ones who get in your face with vile insults, screams, graffiti, vandalism, and any other behavior that passes when one believes their desired ends justifies their means. It is far more believable that a leftist would be likely t…

Thanks. Not sure about your second bit though - I've never thought about it that way, but I'd have said that every part of the political spectrum was just as bad. Especially in the world today.
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