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Facebook admitted Sunday that it had blocked links to the Wikileaks trove of emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee.
In a Twitter post late Saturday, WikiLeaks accused the social media giant of "censorship" and gave its followers an online workaround, saying "try using https://archive.is."
The WikiLeaks allegation followed a firestorm of controversy that erupted earlier this year when former Facebook workers admitted routinely suppressing conservative news.
Source: https://nypost.com/2016/07/24/facebook-admits-to-blocking-wikileaks-links-in-dnc-email-hack/
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:02AM
In the early days, Facebook wasn't as bad as it is today.
The mere concept of "social media" is revolting, and it was obvious what it would turn into from the beginning. Come on now. It's only the billionth time a company has abused its users, so it should be obvious by now that posting your information everywhere is a bad idea.
All of you superior creatures who know how bad Facebook is - how did you discover that fact?
Gee, I don't know. Maybe reading the countless news articles about how Facebook abuses its useds, as well as having a brain. If you give away your private information to a "social media" company, it isn't hard to predict that they'll sell it, spread it around, give it to the government, and possibly do malicious and/or harmful things with it. Even absent the news articles, predicting that Facebook would abuse its users in increasingly horrible ways was too easy.
I guess it's time for a newsflash, right? Virtually every internet business is in it for the money.
Not just Internet businesses. And this is another reason it was so easy to predict what Facebook's actions would be, so there was no need for "braver souls" to be used by Facebook first.
Let me repeat - I have a Facebook account. And, I actually find it somewhat useful, when I need to track some lackwit who doesn't know any better than to post all his/her shit to Facebook.
There is no "need" here. And someone like that isn't worth reading about. I don't care if some dumb criminal is occasionally caught because they bragged about their exploits on fecal media.
Unfortunately, most people are used BY Facebook.
The big users of Facebook are the advertisers, giant companies, and the government, all of whom are more than happy to siphon up data from the suckers who falsely believe themselves to be the users of Facebook.
The best thing would be for Facebook and all similar to companies to vanish off the face of the Earth, but that doesn't look like it will happen. There's just too many suckers that can be easily scammed.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:17AM
Well, geez, you're a freaking omnipotent genius. You knew what Facebook would be way back in 1950, I suppose. You didn't even have to hear the name to know what it would become. You're amazing.
"And someone like that isn't worth reading about."
It isn't "reading about". If you are unable to imagine a situation in which you want to know where someone is, or what he/she is doing, or even whether they are still alive, then I suppose that you don't have much of a life.
Facebook is a fact of life. You can't just wish that it would go away. It's here, it's real, and the less intelligent people use it carelessly. Their carelessness enables people to track them. Sometimes, I can put that to use. You can't? Then, maybe you lack imagination.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @02:45AM
Well, geez, you're a freaking omnipotent genius.
Wrong. It doesn't take a genius to realize the obvious. How many times have companies sold user information and just generally abused their users? It was not hard to predict Facebook would do these things with the information people gave it. Is your standard of "genius" really so low?
Facebook is a fact of life.
It's a fact of life only in the sense that it exists and a lot of people use it. But many bad things exist, so this is merely another addition to that list.
You can't? Then, maybe you lack imagination.
It's not that I "can't", but that I refuse on principle to use Facebook and its ilk in any way.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:25AM
You realize this site, and /. before it, are arguably social media, yes?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @02:40AM
Sure, if you use an incredibly broad and useless definition of "social media". But then I would just say that that's not the type of "social media" being discussed.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:32AM
With some people it's more like anti-social media...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @06:31AM
Yet with others is more like social anti-media.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 27 2016, @10:57AM
Ponder it a moment. There are way better news sites. What keeps everyone coming around are the discussions, debates, and outright arguments. So we're definitely social media.
Historically, I think social media was done right just before D2 went in over at our great green grandparent. Everything since then has been people trying and failing to improve on that. Except for us. We rock my stripey socks.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Wednesday July 27 2016, @02:25PM
Arguments? Wrong room, this is abuse! (stupid git)
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27 2016, @10:42PM
So we're definitely social media.
So "social media" is basically any website that allows users to post comments and have discussions. Okay, well, even if you define it that way, this site is still significantly different from Facebook and its ilk. No real name policy, no massive surveillance, no selling of private information, no real expectation of posting sensitive information, etc. Pretty much all of the abuses in the link above. If this site did even a small fraction of the evil things Facebook does, it's almost certain that a grand majority of people here would leave. So while this website may qualify as "social media" under some extremely broad definitions of the term, clearly Facebook is a different kind of "social media".
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 27 2016, @10:59PM
Indeed, we do it right. Them? Pounding the pooch.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.