Into a hundred thousand million pieces.
But thanks likely to this evasion of Android permission requests, Facebook users did not realize for years that the company was collecting information about who they called and texted, which would have helped explain to them why their “People You May Know” recommendations were so eerily accurate. It only came to light earlier this year, three years after it started, when a few Facebook users noticed their call and text history in their Facebook files when they downloaded them.
Related: Google policy “is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross it.”
I like John Stossel, especially since that blurb he did about the madness of gubbamint backed insurance that led to the constant cycle of rebuild, rebuild, rebuild in coastline areas where the inevitable hurricanes would sweep said shoreline clean of occupyable structures.
rebuild, rebuild, rebuild. I wonder if the housing construction lobby had anything to do with that.
“follow the money”
Its called government assistance.
I disabled my FB app on my phone after doing a little “creepiness” test, which it failed miserably. “Access to Device Storage” is a hugely-broad permission and a security bug within Android itself, that I’m sure Google will never, ever fix. The rest of it is irrelevant after that.
Stossel says: “It’s no accident that wonderful services like Google and Facebook (I do love them — despite what they may do to me) were developed in the parts of America farthest from Washington, D.C. It was all “permissionless” innovation.”
Fascism allows for “private ownership” as long as the “privately-owned” companies do the bidding of the authoritarian government. Fascism and Socialism are two sides of the same the coin.
Google stormed the creepy line years ago and are now in the process of taking the capital. But they’re so creepy themselves they don’t know it. Deeply creepy looks like normie to them.
I was sent a spam invitation from Facebook during it’s early years (at that time had never even been to Facebook) and I still owned a flip phone. The email gave me three people I might know. One was a coworker’s wife. I had never met her, sent her an email, been to their house, and didn’t even know her first name but since my coworker has an unusual last name I knew it must be his wife. Confirmed it the next day.
I’ve wondered how facebook made that connection and conclude she must have typed in all her husband’s coworker’s names in the search to see if we were on facebook. That connected me to her even though I had never even been to the site. Not certain how they tied that to my home email address… but they did.
So you don’t even have to ever visit facebook…
One of the things I keep getting is how to use Facebook to better market my books. Many self-published writers claim that the bulk of their sales comes out of Facebook. I really struggle with that, because of articles like this.
Will someone please explain what good breaking up Facebook would do for anybody but the Chinese communists, who would have an easier time buying a majority stake in a Baby Facebook than in Ma Facebook herself?
Nationalize Facebook without compensation, imprison Zuckerberg, throw away the key, and put a good American answering to President Trump in charge of cleaning house.
Make it clear to the speculators who got rich trading on Facebook’s treasure trove of stolen information that crime doesn’t pay.
No matter how many times I read these words of yours, I just cannot fathom how you can believe that handing over the keys of such power to government—any government–would be in any way, shape, or form a good thing.
Government is not a bad thing, any more than the atomic bomb is a bad thing. The trick is to stop it from falling into the hands of evildoers, and if that happens, God forbid, to relieve them of their power over good men as quickly as possible and by whatever means necessary.
That usually means taking their money—money they invariably did obtain honestly.
Which government in the world, anywhere, do you think is a good one, and why? Which of those by nationalisation improved anything they nationalised, and how?
Government is rarely the right answer for anything. There are ways to deal with FB that don’t require nationalisation. Unless you want someone with the brains of Trudeau or Macron in charge of that apparatus. Trump may sit atop the executive branch in the US, but it’s a seat balanced precariously on a gurgling swamp. So think of Clinton/Obama elements in charge of that, instead. Nationalisation assuredly would not end well for the citizenry.