The future of Facebook

Mon, 2019-04-08 14:08

Mr. Magoo

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Facebook needs to have a system in place to prevent these sickos from getting any exposure on Facebook to begin with. Canada needs some strict legislation to that effect.

Well then why not just use this "system" in everyday life? Weed out these "sickos" from society, not just from the web?

In terms of population, Canada is barely one one-hundredth the size of FB, so it should be super easy.

The problem with just "cracking down" on online "sickos" is that we expect this "system" to magically identify and isolate the "sickos", but leave us and our privacy untouched. Only require the "sickos" to give their real names, and only make the "sickos" legally and criminally responsible for their posts, re-tweets and links, only eavesdrop on the "sickos" conversations and suchlike.

It's a bit like demanding that the police crack down on DUI drivers, while opposing random breathalyzer checks, or engine interlock systems, or any "intrusive" regulations around alcohol consumption. Just magically target only the bad people with laser-like precision.

Mon, 2019-04-08 14:13

(Reply to #202) #203

bekayne

NorthReport wrote:

I suppose it is better than nothing but it seems to me this is just a whack-a-mole game, where Facebook removes one, and almost immediately others take its place

Facebook needs to have a system in place to prevent these sickos from getting any exposure on Facebook to begin with. Canada needs some strict legislation to that effect.

Facebook bans Faith Goldy and 'dangerous' alt-right groups

Social media giant says platform can't be used to spread hate

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/facebook-faith-goldy-ban-alt-right-1.5088827

Memories...

Tue, 2019-04-09 19:50

#204

NorthReport

https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/canada/2019/04/09/after-facebook-banned-faith-goldy-and-hate-groups-accounts-and-ads-in-their-name-remained.html?__twitter_impression=true

Mon, 2019-08-05 05:47

#205

NDPP

Richard Stallman: Facebook is a Surveillance Monster Feeding On Our Personal Data (and vid)

https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/456509-digital-privacy-internet-survei...

"How do we break Big Tech's grip on our digital lives? We asked Richard Stallman, the founder and leader of the Free Software Movement..."

Sun, 2020-09-27 01:59

(Reply to #205) #206

Aristotleded24

NDPP wrote:

Richard Stallman: Facebook is a Surveillance Monster Feeding On Our Personal Data (and vid)

https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/456509-digital-privacy-internet-survei...

"How do we break Big Tech's grip on our digital lives?

Turn off your digital devices and don't go on social media. Problem solved.

Sun, 2020-09-27 02:00

#207

Aristotleded24

Facebook censors climate activists and pipeline protesters

Mon, 2020-10-26 12:28

#208

NDPP

Report: Facebook 'Complicit' in Role as 'World's Engine for Anti-Muslim Violence'

https://www.mintpressnews.com/study-facebook-complicit-anti-muslim-viole...

"A new study conducted across nine countries revealed that Facebook played a leading role in facilitating anti-Muslim violence by producing a platform for Islamophobic groups to organize and refusing to stop them when their activities were brought to its attention."

Wed, 2020-10-28 09:16

#209

NDPP

Obama-Era Officials Call for More Government Control of your Facebook Feed

https://www.mintpressnews.com/obama-era-officials-call-for-more-governme...

"Writing in the Washington Post, senior Obama-era official Samantha Power has called on social media giant Facebook to do more to crush what she calls conspiracy theories and disinformation circulating on its platform.

52% of Americans get news on Facebook, making it an enormously powerful and influential news service, not just a social media or messaging app. For years, it has at least partially outsourced its news feed algorithm cultivation to the Atlantic Council, a NATO cutout organization funded by the US government and headed and controlled by former CIA chiefs..."

Wed, 2020-12-09 23:29

#210

NDPP

FTC Lawsuit Against Facebook Could Force Company to Sell Instagram, WhatsApp

https://www.ign.com/articles/ftc-facebook-lawsuit-monopoly-instagram-wha...

"The Federal Trade Commission and 46 states are suing Facebook, claiming the social media company is maintaining a social networking monopoly. The FTC is recommending Facebook divest its assets, including Instagram and WhatsApp..."

Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 m to help local election offices during pandemic

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mark-zuckerberg-donati...

"...Some conservatives have criticized CTCL for donating to election offices in large Democrat-leaning cities in swing states. Phil Kline of the Thomas More Society's Amistad Project in a statement last week...called the donations 'an insidious, coordinated and stealth campaign to manipulate this year's election..."

Perhaps that will help take care of FB's troubles with the FTC.

Thu, 2020-12-10 06:00

#211

josh

The contribution brings the total funding for the election from Zuckerberg and Chan to $400 million — the same amount that Congress allocated in March to help fund election offices as they dealt with the difficulties of adapting to new voting behavior during the coronavirus pandemic. Election experts had estimated it could cost $4 billion to make all the changes, but Senate Republicans never acted on a relief bill from the Democratic-controlled House that included $3.6 billion to help voting officials.

Conservative Republicans, like you apparently, live to suppress the vote in urban areas.