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It's all little too perfect isn't it. I think the CIA connection scenario is certainly worth keeping in back of mind.
This kind of paranoia is how you get another insurrection. If you're finding it difficult to ignore thoughts like that, maybe it's a sign that you need to take a break from social media.
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Yes, democracy is the worst form of governance except for all of the other ones. I trust more in our government than I do in zuckerberg. Letting him continue the path that he and only he decides does not seem like a good idea.
I find it odd that you exalt democracy and the idea of limiting individual freedom in the same paragraph. Zuckerberg isn't a government unto himself and answers to shareholders and board members; one of which served as Chief of staff for the National Economic Council in the Obama administration. You seem to think that our government and large corporations are separate and isolated organizations, but the people that w…
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> I find it amusing how your government treats a whistleblower who is promoting government control over social media, vs the way your government treats a whistleblower who leaks evidence of government spying and abuse. That is because e.g. Snowden is actually a whistleblower, warning the people against the powers that be, and Haugen is an activist pushing for an agenda which aligns with what the powers that be want,…
Snowden is an activist pushing for an agenda too. Sure, one we agree with and seems ethical but it's still an agenda. Side note, when did "activist" become a dirty word?
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I'm merely clarifying HN's common opinion. As for the whistleblower, I'm very skeptical of her — to be a tech PM against encryption, and somehow linking e2e encryption to making the platform less safe, is dubious at best. Removing misinformation and calls to violence on the Facebook platform doesn't need to include monitoring private messages. The idea that she's been a PM at large tech companies for 15 years and doe…
How do these two align? Why would FB sending messages that are sent encrypted (not e2e) and stored on US servers allow China to read messages? If you allege hacking then why wouldn’t they be able to hack the devices? Re misinformation: why would misinformation not simply happen in e2e group chats like it is already happening in e.g. Brazil or India? What’s the difference between posting to a group of friends on Faceb…
Not parent, but I think the idea is that if BigCo does business in CountryA , then CountryA's government invariably forces BigCo to spy on their users who are residents.
Obviously compromising the user's device is a workaround open to governments but hard to achieve in bulk.
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In my opinion, domain experts have a moral obligation to speak up regarding policy that involves their area of expertise. On the topic of encryption, we're the only community with an understanding of what "breaking encryption" means. There are no skeleton keys, only vulnerabilities. We have a moral and ethical duty to fight for encryption, privacy, and security, not against it.
Yes, I agree that we should absolutely provide advice on our area of expertise for topics in our domain but I don't think we should be the ones that make the decision. The other side of the debate aren't idiots, they have some valid view points, else this encryption debate would have been settled long ago. Encryption was not the only point brought up by the OP, they were also against government regulation. My main po…
Is Admiral Poindexter a preferable decision-maker?
There’s no honor among thieves. What this guy, and the whistleblower, and Mark Zuckerberg, and Roger McNamee, and everyone else are doing is simple — they’re all turning on each other. Don’t try to figure out who is “right” or “wrong” or whatever, or if it’s the government going after them, blah blah blah. It’s just a bunch of dirty people pointing fingers at others, trying to wash their karma. Somewhere in the vault…
I don't really care how "dirty" all of the people are, I'm going to listen to what experienced people of all opinions and motivations have to say about the issues and each other, and make up my own mind. Dismissing the underlying censorship issues ignores the consequences for billions; what happens at Facebook sets the standards for the rest of the internet and beyond.
That used to be the case. But at this point, you’re really just watching the ghosts of the past emerge in the present. Facebook doesn’t own the future. It’s impossible to own the future if you can’t hire the talent needed to maintain the ownership.
There was a time that Facebook’s employees were so dedicated and talented that one guy went off into isolation and single-handedly wrote the first version of Facebook for iPhone. I doubt the 2021 equivalent of that guy could ever be convinced to join FB. (A+ to whoever correctly guesses who I’m talking about.)
As cited in this article, Frances Haugen is arguing against allowing Facebook to use end-to-end encryption because she suggests Facebook should have more surveillance of private communications: https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1452309133928054799?s... A lot of people jumped to the defense of the Facebook leaker because the media so successfully framed it as a “whistleblower” situation, but that’s not really wha…
https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/cddf75b6-4279-43db...
There’s no honor among thieves. What this guy, and the whistleblower, and Mark Zuckerberg, and Roger McNamee, and everyone else are doing is simple — they’re all turning on each other. Don’t try to figure out who is “right” or “wrong” or whatever, or if it’s the government going after them, blah blah blah. It’s just a bunch of dirty people pointing fingers at others, trying to wash their karma. Somewhere in the vault…
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It's all little too perfect isn't it. I think the CIA connection scenario is certainly worth keeping in back of mind.
This kind of paranoia is how you get another insurrection. If you're finding it difficult to ignore thoughts like that, maybe it's a sign that you need to take a break from social media.
0. https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1452725377332297734