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A comment on Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absolute no control over it. Parent comment

Re:Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absol... by big_onion on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:51PM (#19637259)
I think this is an example of Tu Quoque[1] logical fallacy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

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Re:Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absol... by chillacy on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:08PM (#19638612)
If the parent had made the claim that it wasn't wrong at all because BF does it, then this would be relevant.

However the parent's claim is subtly different: it states that the industry practice of data collection is not unusual, not that it's not wrong.

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Re:Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absol... by o10449366 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:32PM (#19638285)
Are you just making an observation or do you think that disqualifies the parent's point somehow? If so, your comment is probably an example of the argument from fallacy fallacy. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

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