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Ever change your mind while composing a video to post on Facebook? If you used Facebook's tools, they kept it anyway.
Earlier this week, like many people around the world, my sister Bailey downloaded her Facebook data archives. Along with the contact lists and relationship statuses was something unexpected: several different videos of her attempting to play a scale on a wooden flute in her childhood bedroom. Each video, she discovered, was a different "take" — recorded on Facebook, but then, she assumed, discarded before she posted the final version to a friend's wall.
[...] Facebook's current data policy says that the company can "collect the content and other information you provide when you use our Services, including when you sign up for an account, create or share, and message or communicate with others." "Create" is the operative word in there. By that logic, Facebook technically could save any video a user filmed but did not publish because you created it on the platform.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @08:25PM
Sorry. Perhaps that was a bit cryptic. I'll try to break it down:
Most major news sources, particularly the Washington Post and New York Times, are mouthpieces for the Democrat Party. Right-wingers were the first to pick up on this, and more of us left-wingers are starting to pick up on it, too. It's safe to assume that pretty much any source that's included on Google News is a Democrat Party propaganda outlet.
The unions are not negotiating on the behalf of the workers they're supposed to represent. We saw that with the teacher's strike in West Virginia, and also look into the UAW scandal that's recently come to light. The unions are in the pockets of the capital owners.
Facebook has somehow upset the powers that be. We're supposed to believe that this is because of Russian "meddling." At any rate, the media has been coming down hard on Facebook, clearly running a coordinated campaign to turn people off from Facebook. (Not that we should stop them....)
By Pravda I meant the mainstream news sources in the USA, and not just the Democrat mouthpieces, but those such as Fox News as well.
Many of the worker protests are organized on Facebook due to ease of use.
I'm suggesting that the real reason the media is coming down hard on Facebook is because the elites who control the Democrat Party are angry that Facebook is allowing for this kind of grassroots organization.
Finally, I hoped to elicit ideas for how we can help protests mobilize and organize without relying on centralized services such as Facebook.
My apologies for not being clear. Does that help?