Whistleblower Wylie: Facebook can 'delete you from the internet'

https://www.cnet.com/news/cambridge-analytica-whistleblower-facebook-can-delete-you-from-the-internet/ ^ | 03/20/18 | Richard Nieva

[Mariner]

They sold the patent to others. They developed product...Like Motorola and the famous “transistor radio”.

Which actually had a huge impact on my life.

I was able to listen to ball games during school hours. I think us kids were the principal consumers.

[IncPen]

“Who even has a land line today? ‘”

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Me,and three of my five middle aged kids.

If any of you has a cell phone, you can move land line numbers to your cell plan.

You can get cell phones anywhere these days; used or new, very cheap.

By moving the lines to your cell plan, you'll pay about $10/line per month; you'll save at least $40 per line per month.

I understand some places you can't get cell coverage, or need a fax line, etc.

But if you're in an area where that would work, you'll save a bunch of money.

[Gideon7]

or need a fax line

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There are online services that can replace your fax line. I use MyFax ($10/mo).

[Gideon7]

Bell Labs invented Unix, the precursor of Linux, which became the foundation Android of the Android OS.

[Mears]

I’ve had a cell phone since 1994———24 years, but I still love my landline——and it’s free,a retirement benefit.

My 3 kids that have them got them when they bought their first homes-——and just kept them while raising kids-——they all have smart phones,of course,as do the kids.

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[palmer]

I probably didn't miss a red sox game on my transistor radio. The point is there were plenty of companies to commercialize the transistor. But nobody but government, academia and large monopoly-driven labs would do the basic research and innovation to come up with the transistor. Government funding is a bigger component nowadays and back then they were not. We have seen some pretty neat things from microsoft research like Google maps (way before Google). Facebook sponsors data science research including with the researcher who stole the data. There's no question there's more good than harm in that kind of research, and some percentage of it does not add to those companies' bottom lines. The researchers are proposing new ideas, many of which will not pan out.

You can't simply brush this all aside and say it was inevitable. Someone has to have lots of extra dollars to spend on this research. Increasingly that will be the Chinese but much of that research will be shared with the rest of the world.

[Mariner]

“You can’t simply brush this all aside and say it was inevitable.”

I don’t.

As you said, it still goes on today. The private engine of innovation is still running hot.

But there are companies that are not close to monopoly who are doing pure research. IBM. GE. Lockheed. Cisco. And many more.

[musicman]

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[wgmalabama]

You and me both. I’m invisible so I must be a subject in some experiments.

I don’t snap, twit, face plant, my splace, tinkle, linkedon ....

[Mr. Lucky]

Well said.