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#DeleteFacebook Trending in Response to Cambridge Analytica Accusations

posted by martyb on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the And-nothing-of-value-was-lost dept.

takyon writes:

#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

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:47AM (20 children)

    by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:47AM (#655792) Homepage Journal
    A challenger has appeared... for an even bolder move.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:00AM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:00AM (#655800)

    No one can top you! You are the boldest of the bold, trolling where even alcohol dares not venture.

    • (Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:13AM (9 children)

      by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:13AM (#655812) Homepage Journal
      My short stay here has been filled with so many alcohol/ethanol-related puns, that I feel like I'm missing out on an inside joke.

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by Knowledge Troll on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:33AM (8 children)

        by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:33AM (#655860) Homepage Journal

        It's not an inside joke. You'll probably see ethanol soon enough. It's kind of like this when he posts:

        blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and fuck all the jews

        It doesn't even have to be related to the topic at all. I think it's like Turrets syndrome or something.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:43AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:43AM (#655873)

          A good summary, seems to apply pretty well to this new drug addled troll as well though.

        • (Score: 5, Funny) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:46AM (3 children)

          by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:46AM (#655876) Homepage Journal
          Why do you people keep electing mentally unstable people as your community stars?

          • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:54AM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:54AM (#655886)

            Why do you people keep electing mentally unstable people as your community stars?

            Don't get your hopes up, rook..

            It took eth a long time and a lot of effort in trolling (poorly) and generally being a huge tool before he earned his exalted status as resident scumbag.

            • (Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:23AM (1 child)

              by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:23AM (#655902) Homepage Journal
              All this time, energy, and effort could've been used for productive things. What a waste of a man.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:45AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:45AM (#655926)

                Try and rise above, show us what a useful troll can be.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:50AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:50AM (#655881)

          It's not an inside joke. You'll probably see ethanol soon enough. It's kind of like this when he posts:

                  blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and fuck all the jews

          It doesn't even have to be related to the topic at all. I think it's like Turrets syndrome or something.

          Don't forget the blah blah blah beaners and blah blah blah ghetto brothers blah blah blah.

          Eth is an equal opportunity asshole.

          And to answer your implied question, coke boy, ethanol-fueled is a fucking asshole. But he's *our* fucking asshole. Capische?

          • (Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:53AM (1 child)

            by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:53AM (#655885) Homepage Journal
            I dropped French for another gym period in high school. No comprendo, bruder. I won't recognize a false troll.

            • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:26AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:26AM (#655938)

              I mean seriously, does anyone need more proof that EF is trying to rebrand?

    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:24AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:24AM (#655824) Journal

      He's [soylentnews.org] probably recovering from St Patrick's day celebrations.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:47PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:47PM (#656095)

    If a man shitposts on a forum, but the forum is dead and gay, does it make a sound?

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:09PM (6 children)

      by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:09PM (#656125) Homepage Journal
      Only the quiet sound of fermented semen byproduct exiting a loose asshole, like the wind whistling through the hills, can be heard.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:47PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:47PM (#656145)

        You must be a flex-fuel vehicle.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:52PM (3 children)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:52PM (#656193) Journal

        So you made me curious. (quick googling) Yes semen can be fermented [madsci.org]. And apparently semen infused beer is a hit. [bustle.com]

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        • (Score: 0, Troll) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:23PM (2 children)

          by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:23PM (#656219) Homepage Journal

          It's a common practice among the homosexual community. The bottoms get their asses "filled" and then start an anorexic episode so it stays in their colon. Then, after it's "ripe," the top puts his nose up to the bottom's hole and the bottom "lets it rip." In my honest opinion, it just seems like the homo community's way of not being seen degenerates for liking jenkem.

          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:25PM (1 child)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:25PM (#656352) Journal

            Fascinating. You seem to know a tremendous amount about the practices of gay men. How is this the case?

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            • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:17PM

              by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:17PM (#656363) Homepage Journal
              Back when I was in an all boy's Catholic high school, it was do or die. You either fucked with people or got fucked yourself. One of the more extreme hazing practices was a modified sour cream pie (aforementioned act), where you're forced to carry it around for a set amount of time. If at the "proving period" (where you would lean upside down against where the wall connected to the floor, head facing up, ass parallel, then you'd have to catch the drops -- freshies would forget to not eat and what they got weren't drops -- with your tongue) you couldn't produce, you'd get gypsy whipped (potato in a tube-sock). Sharpie rapes were still popular when I was in school, I even used it often as threat to get free lunch money from a jew in my class. Slop bucket was still around, where a bunch of guys shit, pissed, and came into a bucket and some poor "piggie" (fat and short kid that didn't belong to any group) had to drink all of it.

              They were definitely on the extreme side of "gay hazing," but it was what it was.