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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange touched on the subject of social networking in an interview with Russia Today, calling Facebook “the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented.”
Assange said he believes Facebook is a giant database of names and records about people, maintained voluntarily by its users but developed for U.S. intelligence to use.
“Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies, and building this database for them,” Assange said.
While Assange doesn’t claim that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence agencies, the fact that they have access to its records is — in his view — dangerous enough.
“Now, is the case that Facebook is run by U.S. intelligence? No, it’s not like that. It’s simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure to them,” he said.
Assange also weighed in on the subject of secret government cables released by WikiLeaks, claiming the really important ones haven’t been exposed yet.
“We only released secret, classified, confidential material. We didn’t have any top secret cables. The really embarrassing stuff, the really serious stuff wasn’t in our collection to release. But it is still out there,” he said.
At the end of the interview, Assange trashed the media industry, claiming it is heavily distorting reality to the public and doing too little to prevent wars and remove corrupt governments from power. “It really is my opinion that the media, in general, are so bad, we have to question whether the world would be better off without them altogether,” he said.
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[url]http://mashable.com/2011/05/02/julian-assange-facebook-spy-machine/[/url]
VIDEO IN SOURCE.
And nobody is going to stop using it.
Privacy is taken for granted now-a-days.
He has a point.
The onion news had a great video about this.
[url]http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/[/url]
Myspace bought out Assange. ! I called it !
I don't even put much info on my facebook page anyway
[QUOTE=LarparNar;29608141]And nobody is going to stop using it.[/QUOTE]
Of course not, if they're too stupid to realize this in the first place.
I don't even have a Facebook account aside from a gimmick one.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;29608141]And nobody is going to stop using it.[/QUOTE]
Part of the reason I don't use it is because I have lots of dissident views.
Sounds ridiculous until a Special Branch Community Contact Unit officer tries to add you and your friends on facebook for being part of an allegedly extremist, activist group.
0% surprising. 0% care factor.
The anonymous branch in my town does all their organising over facebook
not so anonymous now are we
I suddenly worship this man for pointing out Facebook's largest flaw. He should be our new president.
When you watch the interview the context of his statements sound completely different.
Huxley was fuckin' right.
Not gonna lie, he's lost it :v:
He has a point, but he's lost it.
This is news? I thought everyone knew Facebook is bad when it comes to privacy and that the media are shit.
Let's all "Like" a bunch of anti-American propaganda pages and make the CIA shit their pants.
[i]"Sir, there has been a massive influx of anti-american activity on facebook after Osama's death!"[/i]
[i]Sweet mother of god it's happening.[/i]
I've been saying this for years. No one listened.
And nobody's surprised to learn from Assange something that most of us knew all along.
People don't think about stuff like this (average people don't think much), it's good Assange atleast said it out loud on the media.
[QUOTE=Falchion;29609660]People don't think about stuff like this (average people don't think much), it's good Assange atleast said it out loud on the media.[/QUOTE]
Only until people forget about it because they like using Facebook...
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I'm not worried about US Intelligence (oxymoron?) looking into my private info as one look into the photo collection known as "welcome to the internet" would render them blind.
he's beginning to sound like a bloody conspiracy theorist
facebook's pretty helpful for doxing not gonna lie
honestly, even if facebook had the worst privacy record of all time I'd prefer it to the shithole that is myspace
besides, PSN is a bigger hazard to everyone's privacy anyway
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;29610555]honestly, even if facebook had the worst privacy record of all time I'd prefer it to the shithole that is myspace
besides, PSN is a bigger hazard to everyone's privacy anyway[/QUOTE]
assange didn't say that myspace was a wonderful alternative, if the CIA asked for data on someone with a myspace account they'd give it up too
He's a fucking idiot.
Even if what he is saying is true; what does it matter? It's all for your safety anyway..
In the video he acts like facebook requires your address and entire life story. It doesn't. The only thing on my facebook that actually identifies as me is my name and some photos.
Oh no, everyone knows who I've friended and what my interests are. The horror! I better delete it at once.
Ah who am I kidding, the US government already knows my favorite movie is terminator 2 and that I like biking and videogames. Fuck, my whole life is screwed now.
What a crock of shit.
My respect for this man has just dropped. This is ridiculous.
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