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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

Posted on 03/20/2018 7:28:07 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Chris Wylie, the whistleblower who brought to light Facebook's latest controversy, is having a hard time since the social network suspended his Facebook and Instagram accounts.

Over the weekend, the 28-year-old data scientist provided whistleblower accounts to The New York Times and the UK's Guardian and Observer newspapers about Cambridge Analytica, a consultancy he worked for that was hired by the Trump campaign. The firm allegedly harvested data from more than 50 million Facebook accounts without users' permission.

After he turned whistleblower, he was abruptly booted from Facebook's services.

"This is the power Facebook has," Wylie said Tuesday during an onstage interview at the Front Club in London. "They can delete you from the internet."

Facebook is so ingrained in our modern online experience, Wylie said, that his suspension from the social network has had a ripple effect.

"I know this sounds ridiculous," he said. "I can't use Tinder now, for example -- because you have to validate yourself with... Facebook." (One of the most popular ways to log in to Tinder is to link it to your Facebook account, however it's now possible to sign in using your phone number.)

The issue sounds trivial, but it does underscore how powerful and ubiquitous Facebook has become. It's a platform for 2 billion people to connect and chat with family and friends.

Facebook, for its part, said Wylie was suspended because he violated the company's terms of service.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: analytica; cambridge; facebook; fascism; internet
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To: ctdonath2
Facebook is a private entity, which others may use or compete with.

Not to get into an argument here, Facebook is not a private entity. They are a publicly held company like Sears, Kodak, CompuServe, AOL and other companies you mentioned.

Having said that, I personally don't give a damn' how Fakebook runs itself. I really don't. What irks me in all this is that stupid users don't understand that when they link their authentication from other social media services to their Fakebook account, that those accounts become unavailable when Fakebook suspends or terminates their access.

DUH!

Really? They didn't know this? They never stopped to ask themselves what happens to their other "social media services" if their Fakebook account suddenly stops working for any reason? People are really this stupid that they don't know this when they link accounts across platforms?

As for the rest of your post, I completely agree and hurt my aging neck nodding in agreement. Fakebook is showing signs of their looming demise and they'll have their own life cycle just like My Space, CompuServe and other "platforms" before them.

I personally will enjoy the FedGov climbing up all inside Mark Zuckerberg's ass in the coming weeks and months. When the FedGov decides its a public utility and starts regulating it, that'll truly be the end. :-)

One last comment: My own personal belief is that all these social media platforms have a direct hand in the polarization of America across political/economic/social class and other dividing lines. People will say things on social media they'd never say directly to someone's face. They think they have the safety and comfort of "the platform" to protect them when all they're really doing is contributing to the division in this country.

Nothing would make me happier than seeing the likes of Facebook, Twitter and others going by the wayside and watching people actually have to start interacting face to face again. We were a much more civil society back then. Things that needed to remain unsaid WERE left unsaid.

61 posted on 03/21/2018 6:54:57 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: proust

“I want this so badly.”

Really. I’d pay for that...where do I sign?


62 posted on 03/21/2018 8:11:36 AM PDT by moovova
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To: palmer

“Leting the government define and enforce those segmentations would be extremely damaging to technological progress and freedom in general. “

how so?


63 posted on 03/21/2018 8:32:05 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: OldMissileer

“Breaking up Ma Bell started one of the greatest innovation cycles that led to a great portion of what we today take for granted. “

Quite possibly the greatest innovation cycle in the history of man. It had been pent up behind Ma Bell’s wall for decades.

Once broken, the Internet emerged as did TCP/IP. Then VoIP and streaming and smart phones/cellular.

Unlimited bandwidth over DWDM.

Everything the defines our modern era emerged out of the Bell break-up.


64 posted on 03/21/2018 8:37:18 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Max Tactical

“How can Goggle be dominant when they own less than 15% of the market?”

Which market are you referring to?

They have 80+% of the domestic search market and over 60% of the Cell Phone OS market.


65 posted on 03/21/2018 8:40:45 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
Same reason that applies to all government intervention in the marketplace: it will be used to prevent competition and innovation. In the case of transport and services, I would love to start a WISP in my isolated rural neighborhood and connect everyone with a social media service tailored for local interaction (one of my actual products). I would be stopped by your segmentation rule and worse, the established providers would use it as an excuse to stop the WISP from competing with their DSL, cable, and cellular wireless services.

It's a much worse problem with:
2. Directory/Search
3. Content

Those are always converging. Doing that will keep static definitions and protect current providers. Nobody will compete with Google. Nobody will compete with Facebook for user content. Naturally Facebook will keep their internal search features while hypocritically preventing any competitor from doing the same thing. The whole idea assumes that everything is just fine the way it is. But in fact the company that will overthrow Google will be an upstart that combines search and content.

66 posted on 03/21/2018 12:44:29 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Mariner
Once broken, the Internet emerged as did TCP/IP. Then VoIP and streaming and smart phones/cellular.

Ma Bell offered mobile phone service in 1946. One of the coinventors of TCP/IP spent time at Bell Labs where they hired many brilliant students fresh out of college. VOIP and some streaming came from upstarts but AT&T was not in the way. On the contrary they provided the audio conpression fundamentals and theory by hiring Manfred Schroeder. Only other place he would have gotten a job is a university. In fact there was a lot of mobility between Bell Labs (and GTE Labs and the others) and universities.

Not saying that Ma Bell was good, but often the goodness of Ma Bell only became apparent once the fundamental research that they funded became applied. Certainly they suppressed the MCIs of the world, but that was mainly because they had the government on their side.

67 posted on 03/21/2018 1:01:38 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Mariner
60% of the Cell Phone OS market.

Google has less than 1% of the cell phone market. There is no market for cell phone OS's. Apple doesn't sell an OS, nor does Google.

68 posted on 03/21/2018 1:04:26 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: gaijin

Gaye as the ace of spades.


69 posted on 03/21/2018 1:06:13 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: IncPen
The breakup of Ma Bell led directly (in less than 10 years) to the rise of the cell phone and the internet, and the ability of everyone to communicate with anyone the world over for a tiny fraction of what it cost only a few years ago.

I have read that the old Bell Telephone monopoly delayed cell phones and the necessary research and development by 10-20 years. Land lines made them the most money and they had invested zillions in laying them out. Poor third world nations that could not bear the expense of decent landline networks graduated straight to cell phone networks which are 100x easier to set up.

I used to read about Uruguay wealth level nations where it would take you three years to get a land line put in.

70 posted on 03/21/2018 1:14:33 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: IncPen

“Who even has a land line today? ‘”


Me,and three of my five middle aged kids.

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71 posted on 03/21/2018 1:14:45 PM PDT by Mears
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To: dennisw

The Bell System also sought to delay fiber optics for a few decades, until the end of the expected life of their microwave systems.

Without fiber (originally triggered by SPRINT, following the Divestiture in 1984), there would be no Internet as we know it—not even remotely enough bandwidth to handle the data.


72 posted on 03/21/2018 1:38:07 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

We got lucky that Cambridge Analytics was hired by the Trump campaign.

If they got hired by the Hillary campaign the libtards would have no issue.

Facebook owes people all over the world trillions of dollars of damages for stealing their personal data—hope they have the cash ready... :-)


73 posted on 03/21/2018 1:42:33 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: palmer

Google sells their OS to the phone manufacturer.

In fact, Android has over 80% of the worldwide market share.

And android is Google.

https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/os


74 posted on 03/21/2018 2:57:05 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: palmer

The rule would not stop you from building a WISP.

Only by bundling it with a social media platform would you run amiss.


75 posted on 03/21/2018 3:00:29 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: palmer

“Ma Bell offered mobile phone service in 1946. “

Via VHF radio and a 40lb battery.

A nationwide cellular network was not even conceived.

Yes, Bell labs developed a lot of great technology, then either shelved it or turned it over to whomever wanted to turn it into something.

Including the transistor. Which they did practically nothing with.


76 posted on 03/21/2018 3:11:13 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
Google sells their OS to the phone manufacturer.

Is that why Google pays Samsung $3.5 billion? Very odd definition of "sells".

77 posted on 03/21/2018 3:25:21 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Mariner
Only by bundling it with a social media platform would you run amiss.

Note that "bundling" in this context means give away for free.

78 posted on 03/21/2018 3:27:33 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Mariner
Including the transistor. Which they did practically nothing with.

I don't suppose you see the irony of replying using billions of them.

79 posted on 03/21/2018 3:28:31 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: palmer

“Is that why Google pays Samsung $3.5 billion?”

What’s the source of that?

But it would not surprise me since all search and mail goes to Google, and also location services.

I just looked it up: Google gives Android away for free to the manufacturers as long as they include all the apps Google wants on the phone.


80 posted on 03/21/2018 3:45:21 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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