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Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data by Nasrudith on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:22AM (#26079316)
The stakes change nothing about who is actually responsible. If a terrorist steals your car and uses it for an attack does that mean it is right to hold you accountable because the matter is so serious?

Facebook is not your parent. That logic, that others need to be "held accountable" and that voters are children who cannot be trusted to make up their own minds is far more dangerous to democracy than the Cambridge Analytica ratfucking.

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Re:Facebook sued for ‘losing control’ of users’ data by nvoid on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:48AM (#26079616)
Sorry, should have made it clearer that Cambridge Analytica are the child in my analogy, but I think your point still stands.

I don't think voters are children and I agree with you that that is dangerous thinking, but I do think that showing advertisements based off of data they didn't know they gave in order to change their vote is not the way to allow them to make their own decisions.

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