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#DeleteFacebook trends in response to Cambridge Analytica
We all moved on from MySpace. We can move on from Facebook too." This was a typical message found on Twitter in the wake of accusations over Cambridge Analytica using personal data from 50 million Facebook users to influence the US presidential election in 2016. After reports of Cambridge Analytica using Facebook's user information came to light, people began to urge others to either #DeleteFacebook or #BoycottFacebook in response.
[...] A spokeswoman for Privacy International warned that privacy concerns extend beyond Facebook as "your data is being exploited all the time". A person on the technology subsection of Reddit agreed, saying removing Facebook "doesn't solve the long term problem [because] consent to data use is very weakly protected online right now". And one Twitter user seeking regulation of Facebook said having the ability to delete an account is "a privilege".
This is a campaign we can all get behind, regardless of your position on election interference and influences.
Previously: The Cambridge Analytica Files
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:33AM (7 children)
Grishnakh is a privileged elitist who needs to check his privilege!!!
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(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:46AM (6 children)
Or, on the contrary, he might just be your average Boomer non-rabid-right-wing Soylentil. Like most of us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:21AM (4 children)
One of these things is not like the other...
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:12AM (3 children)
This is one of those things we should ponder. We have no data. But my self-reported age is coming up upon 2400, actually not there yet. TMB is at least 40, so he says. Several other Soylentils have let slip ages that are in the 50-60 range, like the really old dude, Runaway1953. Wow, is he old! And so stupid! But that is not our present issue. The alt-right is a Millennial rebellion against the Old Right, the Republicanism of Reagan, the Bushes, Goldwater and Nixon, and Eisenhower. They are young, conservative, and stupid. Not necessarily in that order. And, they are a minority in America, and a minority on SoylentNews. But they seems, for some reason, to have an oversized voice? *Freearistarchus!!! Remember, "*Freearistarchus!!!" has the correct lowercase spelling of "aristarchus" and three (3) exclamation points. You, too, could be part of the rebellion!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:30AM (1 child)
Sometimes I do wish your screeds would be useful. Young and stupid they may be, but obi wan you are not.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday March 21 2018, @07:21AM
Patience, my young padewan! When 2400 years old you be, begin to understand you might.
(Score: 3, Funny) by kazzie on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:16AM
Funny, my alt-right button is labelled 'AltGr' instead...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:24PM
... conveniently ignoring his many posts advocating authoritarianism and fascism.