Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Building Global Community
by ThrustVectoring on Thursday February 16, 2017 @08:04PM
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Quitting Facebook doesn't effectively prevent it from affecting you and your social network.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Building Global Community
by lazaroclapp on Friday February 17, 2017 @02:36AM
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And not living in many countries certainly does not prevent them from affecting you. The world is deeply interconnected no matter how you structure it, from nuclear proliferation to pollution. You are also not immune from states you opt out of, if you even manage that.
Not that shadow profiles are a good thing, though. But I think this is drifting from the original topic, Facebook is, as of now, eminently more "escapable" than most nation states are. Certainly than any of the great powers, even if you don't live anywhere close to them.
I am not a centralist when it comes to the official international institutions precisely because the no opt-out you describe (which is true for official institutions, not so much for Facebook). But at the same time, without international cooperation and with "every nation for itself" we end up much worse off at a personal and species level.