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Re: Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live

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The dude is responsible for ruining the entire country and old people are still joking and wonder in awe on his intelligence. Maybe because he might give them donations in the future? Also Ted Cruz?? Seriously??!

Let's assume that Facebook helped get Donald Trump elected. (Whether this is true or not, we'll find out). Are you saying Trump is ruining the country? Then why does Facebook take the entire responsibility for "ruining" the country? What about Donald Trump himself and Trump supporters in the U.S? I feel like Donald Trump's persona and his supporters having an influence in the country is way more complex issue than Fa…

> Then why does Facebook take the entire responsibility for "ruining" the country?

Arguably, because moral responsibility does not have to add up to 100%; an actor which decided to pursue an activity whose harms to others are reasonably foreseeable can bear full moral responsibility for those harms without in any way diminishing the responsibility of other actors who also participated in the same activity and for whom the results were also reasonably foreseeable. (This is similar to the legal concept of joint and several liability.)

Re: Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live

#52

Congress is too old and clueless to ask smart questions. Zuck's acting all Lore from Star Trek. FB stock is up just because people keep thinking they'll beat this shit, which they won't.

That's pretty harsh. Most aren't that old. But this is a tech news site and tech hates people over 30, so I guess this is to be expected. As to their "cluelessness", most of the questions I saw weren't that bad. But, then, I don't expect them to be domain experts in everything.

The average age of congress is about 60.

Re: Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live

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You mean whining by ted cruz. That was literally all he ever did. Also didn't he force a bunch of college students to attend his doomed presidential campaign announcement and ask for their cell numbers? https://youtu.be/rpzgXVA8eh0

I apologize if you misconstrued my enthusiasm for Ted Cruz's idiotic line of questions as supportive. It was not.

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Re: Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live

#55
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's pretty harsh. Most aren't that old. But this is a tech news site and tech hates people over 30, so I guess this is to be expected. As to their "cluelessness", most of the questions I saw weren't that bad. But, then, I don't expect them to be domain experts in everything.

The average age of congress is about 60.

60 isn't old. It's the new 50.

Re: Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live

#56
This is blown out of proportion. The reason why people are leaving Facebook is not political at all. It also has nothing to do with decentralization, by the way.

Yes, people are leaving because of privacy, but not from advertisers but from their parents! People are still using whatsapp, because it's easy and crystal clear that when you send a message to a whatsapp group, only the people in the group will see it. And it's not that people can't do that in Facebook, it's just that perhaps the interface is not adequate for that.

Re: Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live

#57
post #28

The dude is responsible for ruining the entire country and old people are still joking and wonder in awe on his intelligence. Maybe because he might give them donations in the future? Also Ted Cruz?? Seriously??!

Let's assume that Facebook helped get Donald Trump elected. (Whether this is true or not, we'll find out). Are you saying Trump is ruining the country? Then why does Facebook take the entire responsibility for "ruining" the country? What about Donald Trump himself and Trump supporters in the U.S? I feel like Donald Trump's persona and his supporters having an influence in the country is way more complex issue than Fa…

Yes Trump is ruining the country and its institutions. I think there should be some decent people from the country in the right wing without fraud or sexual abuse accusations. Having different beliefs is not the problem. This guy is straight up criminal. He's gonna go to jail for collusion probably. His decisions affect the entire world not just the USA.

The issue is not the ad campaigns alone. The main thing is the bubble people are put into. Hate driven silos of people!

Re: Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live

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There is no official rule about it. IMO YouTube is a little more open then FB and FB may require you to login to view content.

> FB may require you to login to view content It's available without login, at least on The Verge's page https://www.facebook.com/verge/videos/1779024592133876/ > IMO YouTube is a little more open then FB Sigh. It's run by Google, please.

What was meant is that you can access most of Youtube's content without having to log in, whereas of Facebook which requires you to be authenticated most of the time to access content.

Re: Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live

#59

It's a bit annoying when half the questions are basically 'how does Facebook work?'. Tech is still magic to most of the people asking the questions.

The later questions have a chance of being better. These things usually go in order of seniority so the dusty old congresspeople who have barely used anything on the internet get to go first. That front loads the testimony with the 'so what is this Facebook' questions.

Re: Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live

#60
post #34

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> FB may require you to login to view content It's available without login, at least on The Verge's page https://www.facebook.com/verge/videos/1779024592133876/ > IMO YouTube is a little more open then FB Sigh. It's run by Google, please.

What was meant is that you can access most of Youtube's content without having to log in, whereas of Facebook which requires you to be authenticated most of the time to access content.

In this particular case, it did not ask you to log in though, so there's little difference.
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