Re:Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning...
by jamespo on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:21PM
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which they are completely within their rights to do
Re:Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning...
by EdHominem on Friday December 02, 2016 @10:06PM
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Well, actually, perhaps not. That's the point. Past a certain size, if you're sleazy and manipulative we're going to control your actions.
But even if, how is that "sure, but you can't legally stop them" a defense? How is it one you feel compelled to make?
Especially because I can technologically stop them. They can block one plugin, and detect one set of blocks, but it's a game we've played many times before and the defense always loses.
No, it doesn't. That's a serious abuse of the language. What you describe would be hacking into Facebook.
What the plugin does is help me not load content I don't want.
The browser is my user-agent and I'm instructing it how to display the content delivered to me.
> It's much harder to tell whether the list of fake news sites it uses is itself fake
Exactly, and yet they're trying harder to block a fact checker than to block the bad news.
If they just backed off on both I could see the bad news and have my plugin flag it.
> or the plugin is a security issue,
Not even close. It's not like Facebook is cleaning up malware plugins.
They're only targeting this one because it threatens their editorial control of my feed.