Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?

Post by walru » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 4:49 PM UTC

27182818284 wrote: post #60

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #34

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Where do you draw the line? If I share something political, am I advertising? If I can't share it, which topics am I forbidden from discussing exactly? What if I only saw this political article because someone else promoted it? What if was one-sided or even false? How does Facebook detect that? There are no easy answers to "keeping propaganda off Facebook" or twitter, while allowing people to talk politics.

The grandparent's reaction is a bit unkempt. I suggest that it is very possible that Facebook, with its access to something like 1 billion MAUs, needs to be regulated, and regulated possibly differently than companies before it. The FEC has some rules for political ads with respect to the Internet, but I am in favor of revisiting those to see what rules need to be established for the greater good of the public >There…

Post by Crespyl » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

walru wrote: post #62

27182818284 wrote: post #60

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The grandparent's reaction is a bit unkempt. I suggest that it is very possible that Facebook, with its access to something like 1 billion MAUs, needs to be regulated, and regulated possibly differently than companies before it. The FEC has some rules for political ads with respect to the Internet, but I am in favor of revisiting those to see what rules need to be established for the greater good of the public >There…

So is $100,000 worth of ads enough to sway an election? Because I have stats claiming nobody clicks on ads.

Post by Stratoscope » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 5:18 PM UTC

mortenjorck wrote: post #56

FabHK wrote: post #22

> “We have been working to ensure the integrity of the German elections this weekend,” Zuckerberg writes. Excuse me, what? As an advertising company, you don't ensure the integrity of a sovereign nation's election. You can at most abstain from unduly interfering with it (and of course you should, it's not particularly laudable or supererogatory).

Facebook has grown so big, and become so totalizing, that we can’t really grasp it all at once. Like a four-dimensional object, we catch slices of it when it passes through the three-dimensional world we recognize. This is an incredible bit of prose. It reads like a description of some kind of future mega-corporation from a Gibson novel, and it's mind-bending to contemplate that we really do live in that universe.

Post by __MatrixMan__ » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 5:23 PM UTC

mortenjorck wrote: post #56

FabHK wrote: post #22

> “We have been working to ensure the integrity of the German elections this weekend,” Zuckerberg writes. Excuse me, what? As an advertising company, you don't ensure the integrity of a sovereign nation's election. You can at most abstain from unduly interfering with it (and of course you should, it's not particularly laudable or supererogatory).

Facebook has grown so big, and become so totalizing, that we can’t really grasp it all at once. Like a four-dimensional object, we catch slices of it when it passes through the three-dimensional world we recognize. This is an incredible bit of prose. It reads like a description of some kind of future mega-corporation from a Gibson novel, and it's mind-bending to contemplate that we really do live in that universe.

    But what had been presented as a democratic town hall was
    revealed to be a densely interwoven collection of parallel
    media ecosystems and political infrastructures outside the
    control of mainstream media outlets and major political 
    parties and moving like a wrecking ball through both.

Post by qq66 » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 5:33 PM UTC

pscsbs wrote: post #53

T-hawk wrote: post #49

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The POTUS has 300 million users. Facebook has 2 billion.

The POTUS has nukes and one of the most highly trained and best-equipped militaries in the world. Facebook can be shutdown by POTUS in an instant. Power is not measured by “users.”