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Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com)
The Papua New Guinean government will ban Facebook for a month in a bid to crack down on "fake users" and study the effects the website is having on the population. From a report: The communication minister, Sam Basil, said the shutdown would allow his department's analysts to carry out research and analysis on who was using the platform, and how they were using it, admits rising concerns about social well-being, security and productivity. "The time will allow information to be collected to identify users that hide behind fake accounts, users that upload pornographic images, users that post false and misleading information on Facebook to be filtered and removed," Basil told the Post Courier newspaper. "This will allow genuine people with real identities to use the social network responsibly." Basil has repeatedly raised concerns about protecting the privacy of PNG's Facebook users in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, which found Facebook had leaked the personal data of tens of millions of users to a private company. The minister has closely followed the US Senate inquiry into Facebook.
Was this guy elected? Sam Basil sure sounds like a Western name.
Sounds to me like what PNG needs is Transparency. Maybe they could establish it as an 'alpha value', even.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Probably in between Old York and Old Jersey.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
PNG (Papua New Guinea) was an Australian Mandate for a long time. The country was on a slow and steady pathway to development and independence (keep in mind cannibalism was still practiced widely there until the 20th century). Then in the 70s, a bunch of do-gooder Australians hijacked the process in the midst of other native independence campaigns worldwide, and dumped independence on PNG even though they were still unprepared. It resulted in things like ministers and senior bureaucrats without a high school education being selected. So, PNG still has a long way to go, though they would have been in a better place if they were an Australian Mandate. I guess banning Facebook and focusing people on work and productivity is probably a good move.
The only sane use of facebook or twitter is by non-persons, or organizations. I can totally imagine that, say, a museum would use an extra channel to show their activities without the need to pay through the nose for ads in local newspapers.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Does one somehow exclude the other? Hard to see your point here.
This guys job is 'Communications Minister', probably not his remit.
Seems like a pretty sensible idea anyway, Hopefully they simply forget to re-enable it.
Between Senegal and Ivory Coast, near Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Oh, you were trying to make a joke? Ummm.....
Hey, while we've got someone on the line from PNG, do you perchance know of anyone who collects / exports seeds of local plants (or would be interested in doing so)? I know some people who might be interested. :)
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Yes, a horrible place at many levels.
But I assume you have a point relevant to the story? Or perhaps a solution to the problem? Perhaps you will go there and help.
They also eat people, including at least one tourist.
Hard to see how disconnecting Facebook would make it any worse though.
And then when you get rich, after your earning potential is restored by mass murdering people, we can kill you too.
It's sad because I don't think you were being ironic or trolling. Just incredibly, incredibly fucking stupid.
Most people don't know they have an addiction until you take it away. I'd support an annual social media free month just so we can all some perspective back in our lives.
PNG (Papua New Guinea) was an Australian Mandate for a long time. The country was on a slow and steady pathway to development and independence (keep in mind cannibalism was still practiced widely there until the 20th century). Then in the 70s, a bunch of do-gooder Australians hijacked the process in the midst of other native independence campaigns worldwide, and dumped independence on PNG even though they were still unprepared. It resulted in things like ministers and senior bureaucrats without a high school education being selected. So, PNG still has a long way to go, though they would have been in a better place if they were an Australian Mandate. I guess banning Facebook and focusing people on work and productivity is probably a good move.
And other such lies... Are you a member of Reclaim Australia, Patriots Front or other such FB Racist groups (yes, I'm calling a spade a spade, they're racists)?
PNG was a former Dutch colony until after WWII where the UN became involved for a number of years before a highly suspect vote joined PNG to Indonesia (which many Papuans rejected, so there is resistance to Indonesian control to this day). Australia never "owned" or "mandated" PNG, in fact we were barely involved beyond supporting the Dutch via the UN in their bid to create a Papuan national identity (towards an independent PNG).
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
I guess my 270 FB friends disagree.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Nobody. Supplying facebook with more personal data does not fall under "sane use".
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Probably in between Old York and Old Jersey.
Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Oh come on, it's more efficient to give them papers and count their ghost votes. That's privatization for you, companies will always try to skimp on the quality whereas government backing can provide truly high quality gv.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
In PNG the government makes many pronouncements and laws which they have no means or interest to enforce. All flash in the pan, no actual go or even a pan to flash in. Law enforcement in PNG is generally non-existent for most of the country, inconsistent where it does exist and usually "paid for" with bribes. The whole government structure is corrupted.
All the PNG government can really do is limit FB from it's networks, which is only a fraction of the total in country. What's more, the number of people actually on line in PNG is vanishingly few, limited mostly to non-nationals involved in missionary work, energy production, logging and mining. Your average PNG citizen has no access to technology of any kind, even in the few cities where poverty reigns.
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Yup.
For a fascinating read, check out the book Seeing Like a State by James C Scott. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Scott argues that identity - e.g. patronymic surnames - is typically imposed on peoples in order to make them legible to central authority.
Really, even seeds? Wow, that's amazingly strict; most places only restrict sale of live plants.
How's that even possible? I mean, if someone eats a wild fruit, they're not allowed to keep the seeds? Or are you not allowed to eat wild fruit?
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