New Orleans Facebook’s constant unfulfilled promises to fix the problems with their platform and its role in offering voice to violence seems to have finally come to the “sell by” date. Patience has been exhausted. The evidence has mounted steadily and seems to have hit a tipping point. First, their #2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, …
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Digital Poorhouse
Columbia Daily reports of hacking and contentious debates about privacy or the lack of it are now commonplace. Reports are already on the front page of the papers about the fact that Facebook is even now alerting the FBI that certain groups have been formed to try to manipulate voters before the 2018 midterm elections …
Strategies for Dealing with Privacy as a Lost Cause
New Orleans As Facebook slips off its pedestal of pretense and posturing about its contribution to the common good that has disguised its brutal capitalist commitments and real priorities, it’s worth wondering if claims to protect consumers’ privacy are just more empty promises. Personal privacy may be just a lost cause and a battle engaged …