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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by bongobongo on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:01PM (#20167459)
It never ceases to amaze me how people who are opposed to government surveillance by accountable liberal constitutional democracies are OK with surveillance by unaccountable private interests who lie all the time and do harm in order to make money.
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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by cameronbrown on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:19PM (#20167652)
The government has the ability to make me disappear. Facebook does not.
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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by tehjoker on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:27PM (#20167742)
"Facebook Is Looking for Employees With National Security Clearances" "October 16, 2017, 4:00 AM EDT Updated on October 16, 2017, 12:23 PM EDT"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/facebook-...

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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by arrosenberg on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:29PM (#20167771)
Facebook does have the opposite ability though - they could make one appear to be whoever they want. If they were inclined to use their data and technology maliciously, against an individual, I think it's likely they could ruin that life pretty quickly.
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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by gdy on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @03:06PM (#20168172)
But character assassination with all the data on you that FB has is trivial.
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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by ishan1121 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:12AM (#20172449)
Be shadow banned by Fb & Google and your online presence is dead. You can scream and scream all you want but no one will hear you online.
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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by bongobongo on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:30PM (#20167783)
A liberal constitutional democracy does not have any more ability to make you disappear than Facebook does.

And repressive governments already use Facebook to disappear their people:

>The Facebook posts were not from everyday internet users. Instead, they were from Myanmar military personnel who turned the social network into a tool for ethnic cleansing, according to former military officials, researchers and civilian officials in the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

So, the notion that it's somehow "safer" for Facebook to engage in omnipresent surveillance doesn't prove true.

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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by phry on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:12PM (#20168790)
> A liberal constitutional democracy does not have any more ability to make you disappear than Facebook does.

oh for sure bud

"The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-poli...

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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by na85 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:36PM (#20169025)
The US isn't a liberal constitutional democracy. It's an oligarchy with different laws for the rich and poor.
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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by paulddraper on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:41PM (#20170484)
> A liberal constitutional democracy does not have any more ability to make you disappear than Facebook does.

Yes, no true Scotsman would do such a thing.

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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by paulddraper on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:56PM (#20169236)
Government has a exclusive monopoly on taxation and physical force.

Facebook is just some website.

There's not even a comparison.

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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by AlexandrB on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @05:07PM (#20169322)
Government is elected.

Facebook is controlled by a single person who even the board cannot force out.

There's not even a comparison.

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Re:Facebook Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionabl... by paulddraper on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:38PM (#20170466)
Facebook was elected by the market.

There have been other candidates to make bids: Google+, WeChat, etc.

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