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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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(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.