They made a tool & tried to make it open/easy/useful (tech theology = ‘good’). They didn’t think about people inventing new forms of abuse
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One can criticize FB for not thinking about exploits (and racist ads are an exploit). But claiming it’s part of the business model is wrong
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Bad people will find flaws in large complex systems. This doesn’t mean the people who built the system are bad, nor that the system is
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‘Jews are bad’ ads remind us of something inherent to humanity, and to large complex tech systems, not anything about much Facebook <\>
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TLDR: sometimes a fuckup is just a fuckup and a bug is just a bug, not the proof for your searing indictment of a company you don’t like
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Same for the current crop of USB vulnerabilities
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Selfpropagating programs in Office unintended. Any ads targeted very specifically is intended.
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Facebook was willing to overlook flaws and checks/balances in the quest for shareholder value.
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Wrong. They didn’t know it was there and the money was too small to notice
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They sold the ability to run scripts, so yeah. No different
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