Facebook’s Surveillance Machine

Re:Facebook’s Surveillance Machine by bambax on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @06:01AM (#16636710)

I don't mean to say that we shouldn't regulate Facebook, as a society; sure we should, and let's try to do it. But that will take years, if not decades.

But as individuals, there is something we can do today: not use it. Why dismiss this very simple solution?

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Re:Facebook’s Surveillance Machine by munificent on Thursday March 22, 2018 @06:28PM (#16653297)

I'm definitely not arguing that we shouldn't take individual steps that helps. But the parent comment says:

> if convenience trumps everything and you can't accept to make any sacrifice whatsoever then maybe you deserve to be taken advantage of.

Which basically sounds to me like, "If every fallible human on Earth can't individually decide to solve this problem, they don't deserve any solution."

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