On Android. Facebook has apparently been scooping up people’s text messages on Android phones. Not messenger communication—plain text messages. Content and metadata.https://twitter.com/foxenhimr/status/982385875630903297?s=21 …
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The way to change Facebook and YouTube—and the whole online economy of surveillance—is to change their incentive structure and business model. Neither Zuckerberg apologizing for the umpteenth time in fifteen years nor legislators yelling at Zuckerberg will get us there.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Alec Muffett
ahaha this is supposed to be a put-down of me—the very week Facebook announcing an implementation of political ad transparency of the kind I called for five years ago. So yeah maybe that would be a good idea. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/982655550210048000 …
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Yes, it is, although it is meant more of a general jab at all of the commentators and pundits who are making hay at the moment.
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Alec Muffett Retweeted zeynep tufekci
We've already established in a prior exchange that you're the sort of person to call for censorship resistance one moment (Erdogan?) and yet call for censorship/filtering of Facebook the next. I lost a lot of respect for you, that day,
@zeynep.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/859792162585804803 …Alec Muffett added,
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As you put it at the time, you don't see what the issue is, and that's a statement with which I cannot disagree:pic.twitter.com/pOMoxvJU2A
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Indeed, I absolutely believe it is perfectly reasonable and, in fact, essential to block livestreaming of murder and/or distribution of snuff films. So, I guess we continue to disagree.
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We do; I'm content with post-hoc reporting and mitigation by taking out the account + anyone linked to the offensive material upstream. But that's not good enough for you; it's more important that a human being play god, & then we have another battle: for a beneficent god.
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Replying to @AlecMuffett @zeynep
Once a human is in the "censor" role, they will be a point of focus for every agenda and vendetta and conspiracy theory — consider what happened to Facebook's "trending topic" editors, while they were still employed. But, hey, thankfully you are not in charge.
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The problem with Facebook live was the way it was algorithmically amplified to top of feed--"incentivizing" pretty horrific behavior because of the amplication. If I had been in charge, the moderators Zuck employed *after* murders/suicides on Live, would have been hired *before*.
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So once again, he did end up doing what I was suggesting, but only reactively, after horrible things happened, whereas I made the suggestion before and pointed out what would obviously happen, before. You're making my case. Anyway.
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Replying to @AlecMuffett @zeynep
The claim that streaming video is «"incentivizing" pretty horrific behavior because of the amplification» is interesting; it's the complement of the more usual "Anonymity Causes Bad Behaviour" that one sees in the reactionary left/right-wing press. http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/325699-greater-internet-fuckwad-theory …pic.twitter.com/0MbgX3UNMe
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