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Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook by danjac on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:16AM (#25384477)
I'm sure it's a comfort to the victims of the Rohingya genocide that your mother has a platform to share photos of her grandkids.
Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook by necovek on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:26AM (#25384541)
You seem to suggest that Facebook itself is to blame for that, and not the people interacting on it.

Previously, mass manipulation was only available to really rich and powerful, or states versed in it. Now it's available to much smaller and less sophisticated actors.

But I don't think that's an issue, the issue is that manipulation is acceptable at all, and how we can draw the new, better line there? (Looking at you too, Marketing)

Re:We can have democracy or we can have Facebook by primroot on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:11AM (#25384886)
In that case, why not blame Hillary Clinton for normalizing relations with the genocidal state, so that American corporations could have access to a new market?