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Why You Should Never Rely on Social Media

posted by mrpg on Sunday April 29 2018, @03:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-my-life-is-in-my-flash-drive dept.

canopic jug writes:

Steven Saus has written a blog post about why you should never rely on social media. In his latest post on the topic he points out that:

[...] If you don’t personally own your website and data, you don’t have a website or data. Quite simply, you cannot rely on someone else for you to have a website, platform, or social media presence.

[...] I now know, in my gut, how fragile my access to the services Google, Facebook, and Twitter supply are.

Because – and I cannot stress this enough – my ban from G+ was due to something I supposedly posted to G+ when I was unable to post to G+. Hell, I still don’t know what got me in trouble in the first place.

Regardless, my trust is broken, and my role as product has been made painfully clear.

G+ is used as the example, but the same principles apply to the other social control media.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @08:32PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @08:32PM (#673908)

    dailystormer.com doesn't resolve. dailystormer.net is blocked at my university, but leads to a parking page. dailystormer.name doesn't like my browser.

    Mr Andrew Anglin from Worthington OH was smart enough to register all three at competing registrar sites. However, I notice he uses javascript code written by a Jew.

  • (Score: 2) by KiloByte on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:18AM

    by KiloByte (375) on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:18AM (#674383)

    However, I notice he uses javascript code written by a Jew.

    Yeah, I don't understand these kind of kooks at all.

    Like, Nazis followed the teachings of a slav occultist Blavatsky and as a non-aryan race (Germans) kept murdering an aryan one (gypsies). On the other hand, today it's Hitler who's the symbol of evil when all flavours of fascism together haven't killed even one fifth of people killed by flavours of communism. And so on, so on...

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