(THREAD) Great line in Matchstick Men, a mediocre con artist movie with Nic Cage:
"You didn't take it. I gave it to you."
That's #Facebook
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But, as Neo says in the 3rd (and worst) Matrix movie, "The program Smith has grown beyond your control."
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People worry about government surveillance. But at least government's somewhat responsive to citizens.
#Facebook only cares about profit 6/xShow this thread -
The 2016 election should be a wake up call.
#Facebook is the greatest method of disseminating propaganda in history. And they don't care 7/xShow this thread -
#Facebook helped people spread fake news. The actually false kind, not the "I don't like what the truth means for me" kind. 8/xShow this thread -
#Facebook helped Russian intelligence microtarget American voters. $100,000 is all it took for Russian propagandists to reach millions. 9/xShow this thread -
If you're happy with the election results or not, you should be concerned with how easy it was to manipulate American voters.
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And you should be especially concerned with how much
#Facebook values profits over truth, privacy, and democracy. 11/xShow this thread -
As I wrote in this article,
#Facebook's ambitions are more extensive than you may have imagined. 12/xhttps://arcdigital.media/mark-zuckerberg-doesnt-understand-privacy-or-integrity-942266885bd5 …Show this thread -
I'm not even sure if
#Facebook understands exactly what it's doing. There's money to be made, and engineering feats to be achieved. 13/xShow this thread -
And let's be honest: people (me included) aren't going to stop using
#Facebook. They're up to 2 billion users and not stopping there. 14/xShow this thread -
Maybe we should regulate
#Facebook like a utility? It has more communication than phone companies, controls more info than broadcast TV 15/xShow this thread -
I don't really know what we should do about
#Facebook. But it's an essential question for democracy and freedom in the 21st century. (END)Show this thread -
PS1: The United States built the internet, with US tax dollars. Europe (CERN) invented the World Wide Web, with European tax money
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PS2:
#Facebook will whine about regulation. But you know what WE THE PEOPLE can do with the internet? WHATEVER WE GODDAMN PLEASE. It's OURS.Show this thread
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I have an account, but rarely look at it. Facebook is too insistent (particularly when it recommends strangers want to be my ‘friend’).
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No, no, no! Cute kids are not worth jeapdized accts.! STOP
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