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Re: Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)

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Post by pjmlp » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

pferde wrote: post #56

pjmlp wrote: post #35

I would like to see this anti-Facebook activism also apply to FOSS technologies built with Facebook money selling data. Or free beer gets a free pass no matter how it was produced? So much for moral values.

Unless said technologies are for stealing user data, what would be the point? At the risk of angering Godwin, did post-WW2 Germany tear down the incredibly useful "Autobahn" highway system that the Nazi party built during their reign?

Each one has to decide which morals they are willing to accept, not blasting Facebook on HN and then do a git clone of React 5 minutes later.

At least the autobahn is acknowledged to have been built with blood, if you want to go down that route.

Re: Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)

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Post by ecmascript » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 6:54 AM UTC

cbozeman wrote: post #24

ecmascript wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely disagree, I am ~30 and I believe my generation strongly dislikes woke culture and people younger than me hates it with all their hearts, except for a rare few that is into it. The main pushers of woke culture, imo, is my parents generation and generally people older than 40. My generation cares a lot more about facts than the boomer generation which cares a lot more about feelings. That is why when selli…

> my generation strongly dislikes woke culture and people younger than me hates it with all their hearts, except for a rare few that is into it. My nephew has a totally different take on this... he's graduating from UT Austin, and I know that's a very liberal campus, but he's also persona non grata, being a 22 year old straight white male who got his Dad's 9/11 G.I. Bill and grew up in thoroughly middle class / lower…

Of course, it wears on me too and while I have constantly heard the same through my life it never broke me down but rather did the opposite. However I think this may be an age thing. I am just too old to experience the extreme wokeness that is going on many campuses around the world right now. But also, I think european campuses are much less woke than american ones.

I am so very glad I am not a student in america right now.

Re: Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (2018)

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Post by ecmascript » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 6:57 AM UTC

secondcoming wrote: post #37

ecmascript wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely disagree, I am ~30 and I believe my generation strongly dislikes woke culture and people younger than me hates it with all their hearts, except for a rare few that is into it. The main pushers of woke culture, imo, is my parents generation and generally people older than 40. My generation cares a lot more about facts than the boomer generation which cares a lot more about feelings. That is why when selli…

Once this pandemic is over I'd like to pay a visit to your world!

You maybe can if you really wish. I live on a very vaccination friendly place in Sweden and I soon have a guest house that I am going to rent out ;)