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Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine by lerpa on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @10:42AM (#16628955)
It's the problem with that kind of speech, it's impersonal and dehumanizing.

Let's say it like it is: facebook betrays users expectations giving their data to other businesses.

Same for hacking: some people invaded system such and such and took private information.

It doesn't matter if it was a breach, a floodgate, a window, what matters is what happened, and what happened is that player X did Y. Let's just state that first and foremost.

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Re:Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine by hinkley on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @12:16PM (#16629901)
It’s important for the public discourse that someone point this sort of stuff out occasionally. Even if this was not even the most egregious example I’ve seen this week.

Once in a while I reread http://www.derailingfordummies.com and review the definition of “horizontal aggression”. Sometimes it saves me from engaging with people who are derailing the conversation. Accidentally or willfully.

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