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Re:Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users by hobs on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:06PM (#18096608)
It seems like a vast networked trove of everyone's information is doing the opposite of "preserving our democracy from attacks" - its actively enabling it.

Minimizing the damage of collecting that information is maybe not directly evil, but helping kick the can down the road to the point where facebook is so deeply networked in our society its unremoveable doesnt seem like a high horse to be riding on.

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Re:Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users by jkchu on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:16PM (#18097502)
your line of reasoning makes it sound like it would be simple for everyone in the world to stop using Facebook or some similar social media platform. I see nothing wrong with trying to improve something that is already well ingrained into human society.
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Re:Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users by confounded on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:44PM (#18097660)
Is it Facebook the executive team and business model that’s ingrained, or is it the general concept of sharing photos and links, and sending messages?

Or, have the former earned a monopoly on the latter/our-species?

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Re:Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users by hobs on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:16PM (#18098178)
Hopefully I didn't make it out to be simple as much as stark. I feel like the option where you get a bunch of money and perks is probably the "simpler" option.
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