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Re:Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upsid... by frebord on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @01:31PM (#13543448)
I mean Facebook for example, at its core for an end user it really just mirrors what the Internet was built to do. I can easily host my own profile and allow people to log in to it and talk to me. How did it become so dangerously centralized?
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Re:Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upsid... by mjevans on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:05PM (#13543819)
The average user is lazy, cheep, and unaware of how valuable their freedom is.
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Re:Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upsid... by willemmali on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:59PM (#13544451)
Did you mean "sheep" or "cheap"?
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Re:Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upsid... by tombrossman on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @04:17PM (#13545305)
I think we've just witnessed the birth of a new technology portmanteau on HN- "Cheep: (noun) Member of one or more online herds of users who are exploited for personal data". I like it.

(sadly, cheep.com is already taken or I'd be on that like white on rice...)

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Re:Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upsid... by criddell on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:04PM (#13545803)
> How did it become so dangerously centralized?

Network effects and there's nothing out there better than Facebook.

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Re:Cambridge Analytica: The Data That Turned the World Upsid... by dredmorbius on Thursday February 02, 2017 @01:12AM (#13548508)
Facebook owns the directory, and the notifications channel.

Freestanding sites lack this, and it turns out that behavioural costs matter.

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