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posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 26 2016, @08:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the guess-which-side-they-are-on dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

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: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:18AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:18AM (#380555)

    It's not that they are too big to exist, it's that they are private entities, with no obligations whatsoever to the public,

    So you think they would be more open if owned by the government? I'd laugh if such ideas weren't so widespread and so utterly dangerous.

    Do you really want a Facebook as political as the IRS? Worse, an IRS directly tied into Facebook?

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:57AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday July 27 2016, @01:57AM (#380568)

    No, I'd like them to be either some kind of open protocol, or managed by an NGO of some kind. I'm thinking something more along the lines of the Apache Software Foundation.

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
    • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:25PM

      by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday July 27 2016, @03:25PM (#380776)

      So you want the worst of all possible solutions. Zero accountability, maximum social justice.

      At least corporations are answerable to market pressure and shareholders. An NGO is answerable to nothing. The Apache Foundation survives because it has no resources to attract the SJW locust and they can't figure a way to benefit directly from controlling any of the Apache projects. Yet. Contrast to Moz Corp. Or even the GNOMES got access to enough resources to attract locust.

      Any non-profit or NGO who suddenly found themselves controlling a platform as powerful as Facebook or Twitter would almost instantly be converged to Social Justice. Just imagine the pressure to implement anti-hate speech protections, anti-cyber bullying, etc. And any platform with the user numbers of FB or Twitter -would- be monitized, see Moz Corp. Once there was also money flowing along with the potential for 'doing good' you could start the countdown clock until total convergence at one year.

      Unless you have a magic formula to 100% keep out SJWs that no other organization has yet discovered.

      Decentralized is the only way. The only way to prevent SJW convergence is to prevent the formation of attractive piles of cash and levers of control just calling for someone to use them 'for good.' Facebook can't avoid it, if Zuck wasn't already an SJW he would be quickly replaced by one.