Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner

Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ... by maxaf on Sunday April 07, 2019 @11:19PM (#19601682)

I challenge the premise that anything needs to be “posted”. What is it with this incessant drive to give everyone a voice? It turns out that the majority of “user-generated content” is either trivial or outright harmful. Perhaps the time has come for this experiment to end.

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Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ... by profmonocle on Monday April 08, 2019 @12:08AM (#19601980)

If we abandon the idea that everyone gets a voice, then who decides who does, and how do they do so?

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Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ... by maxaf on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:41AM (#19603637)

Professional guilds, such as those which have existed for centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild

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Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Sunday April 07, 2019 @11:21PM (#19601698)

> I challenge the premise that anything needs to be “posted”.

Agreed, delete Usenet. The web should just be for Disney, Universal Studios, Netflix and Amazon. The common person does not need nor deserve a voice.

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Re:Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's ... by maxaf on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:42AM (#19603643)

Don't be so dramatic. The common person really does not have anything interesting to say. I'm sure you've seen Facebook: that's what the common person is like. This isn't new: people have been boring for a long time, but until recently we had no way to know exactly how boring. Now we do.

If you haven't been bored to death with this comment, I may have to try harder. Let me know.

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