• 'Call their bluff': Shut down social media platforms, ex-Facebook advisor urges
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/facebook-grand-committee-tuesday-1.5152436
"Data is not the new oil. It's the new plutonium: amazingly powerful, dangerous when it spreads, difficult to clean up and with serious consequences when improperly used."   Good quote
Governments would be fools to give up their greatest surveillance program
where am I meant to get porn tho
Meanwhile, the Canadian government subpoenaed Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl Sandburg (FB's COO) to testify before Parliament. They're apparently refusing, and Parliament is considering holding the two of them in contempt of Parliament if they don't show up. Conservative MP Bob Zimmer said the ethics committee has talked about finding Zuckerberg and Sandberg in contempt of Parliament if they continue to ignore the committee's summons. "I don't think it would send a good message internationally about, you know, blowing off an entire country of 36 million people," said Zimmer, the chair of the Commons committee. ... If Zuckerberg and Sandberg are no-shows this week, the committee would first have to vote on a motion recommending a contempt finding before it could go to the floor of the House of Commons for a vote. I doubt Parliament would have the balls, and it may not be legally possible, but I'd like to see Canada fine Facebook $5 million a day that Zuck and Sandburg defy the Canadian government, and if they've still refused to testify after the fines have been in action for a month, up it to $10mil/day and start drafting legislation regulating social media companies without Facebook's input. In the hypothetical case where that actually happens, they'll either show up or they'll cut off service to Facebook in Canada, which would fuck over a lot of people but ultimately is for the better considering how creepy and ripe for abuse it is.
the funniest thing is that all you have to do, is to not post about your stuff like, you can obviously argue that we shouldn't need to abdicate from that in order for government surveilance not to happen through social media platforms and you'd be right, but still...
Who the fuck gets their porn from facebook?
Creeps
You using Facebook for porn?
Cutting off Facebook's access in Canada would be a flagrant violation of Section 2 of the Charter.
They can only orgasm to photos of faces, don't judge
I meant FB cutting it off themselves rather than submitting to Parliament and the hypothetical daily fines, not the government blocking Facebook on the national level.
No, I use twitter for porn. I figured twitter would be encompassed in the idea of "Social media", and that this wasn't just about facebook exclusively. I don't even have a facebook lol
They can still track you even if you're not logged in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Deg7VrpHbM
It's hard to imagine that there are sick fucks out there who get their rocks off watching anything other than a married couple engaging in intercourse for the procreation of children.
It sounds like the porn's getting to your brain, dude. You might want to cool down on that stuff.
Newgrounds is decent for that now.
You know there are like a thousand other places to get stuff like that right? Yeah uh, a friend of mine told me.
The funny part is that all of that also applies to oil anyway.
Newgrounds would count as social media though, wouldn't it? I think most sites count as "social media" Of course they're only really talking about shutting down Facebook/Twitter, it's not like they'd shut down something like NG or FP.
It think it was just a joke reference to this: https://youtu.be/9Deg7VrpHbM?t=2
ok hot
In all seriousness, though, there are a respectable amount of creators for whom social media like Twitter and Facebook are an important part of driving traffic and, as such, sales for them to make a living. Just blanket shutting down all social media would be damaging those people in the crossfire. I find the toxicity of social media as disheartening and frankly disgusting as much as the next person, but there are innocent people who would be negatively affected by this. Would it be worth the damage to them? Maybe, maybe not. But I think it's something worth considering before reaching for the torches and pitchforks.
The thing with social media is if you shut one down, another will spring up. While I'm sure it'll hurt some, I think that hurt would be temporary at worst. Hopefully something decentralized is what ends up replacing Facebook & Twitter.
So, what kind of stuff are you looking at? Out of pure innocent curiosity.
I don't doubt that in the slightest. Think we were tracked even before social media was a thing.
Ok so now I'm really curious, what kind of fucked up porn can you not get on porn websites but you can get on twitter?
Tumblr users migrated to Twitter after the marketing puritans shut it down, and Tumblr was filled to the brim with extremely highly specific fetishes.
For our sanity, as a collective, social media's current incarnation already drowns out a lot of creative works already. People with passionate projects will find a way. We cannot excuse these companies having a monopoly on their specific type of platforms.
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