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Only tangentially related, but the second image in the article [1] — the one with all the cameras right in Zuckerberg's face — is crazy . What a strange and surreal experience that must be. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/mark-zuck...
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I don't care about Six4Three or their motives; I care about Facebook and privacy. It might be unfair to Facebook but from the little I know about their business practices, they hardly have clean hands or deserve much sympathy. > $250,000 That doesn't sound like much for a years-long lawsuit against a major company with deep pockets; unless they are suing for far more, there won't be much, if any, net profit even if t…
Honestly it sounds like a developer (or group of developers) through together an app that appeals to creepers and they felt arbitrarily singled out for creating a blatantly creepy app whereas the ones that quietly monetize the same data (via data brokers or something to that effect) get a free pass. Ordinarily, a developer would bugger off but they (presumably) have alt-right activist leanings and they're trying to m…
I have read it three times. It doesn’t make sense. I have no idea what is being alleged.
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Honestly it sounds like a developer (or group of developers) through together an app that appeals to creepers and they felt arbitrarily singled out for creating a blatantly creepy app whereas the ones that quietly monetize the same data (via data brokers or something to that effect) get a free pass. Ordinarily, a developer would bugger off but they (presumably) have alt-right activist leanings and they're trying to m…
What is alt-right? I thought it was people who don't like immigration. Seems to have nothing to do with this. Edit: Just read up on the term. It's meaningless.
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What is alt-right? I thought it was people who don't like immigration. Seems to have nothing to do with this. Edit: Just read up on the term. It's meaningless.
Can we skip this ritualistic pantomime? For the record, the other side of the issue is that the term has serious meaning and that the alt-right likes to undermine any allegations against it (of course), even by arguing that the term itself is meaningless and that they don't even exist; it's all a fantasy. A great way of disrupting any discussion or criticism. You can read the alt-right's position in the parent and ot…
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What is alt-right? I thought it was people who don't like immigration. Seems to have nothing to do with this. Edit: Just read up on the term. It's meaningless.
Exactly. Not to start a whole thing, but almost anytime you read alt-right, in context it means “person I don’t like the internet said exists”.
Back in December 2016, Six4Three ("643") created a website https://www.facebooksappeconomy.com to raise awareness about Facebook's business practices.
"... Facebook started threatening to shut off friend data to companies in late 2012 unless they made extravagant, unrelated purchases in Facebook's new mobile ads product. Zuckerberg did this in order to keep Facebook's advertising business from collapsing because it had been built exclusively for desktop computers."
It has more details on what 643 is hoping to accomplish with the help of other app developers, including a timeline as well as a documentary video.
When 643 contacted Facebook to let them know about this website, Facebook threatened 643 with trademark infringement.1
1. http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
"Six4Three lodged its original case in 2015 shortly after Facebook removed developers’ access to friends’ data. The company said it had invested $250,000 in developing an app called Pikinis that filtered users’ friends photos to find any of them in swimwear. Its launch was met with controversy." So basically this company tried to do something creepy and invasive with users' data, were stopped by Facebook, and now the…
Stop, you're making a comment that is not unequivocally anti-Facebook, therefore it is incorrect