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Facebook Launches a Petition Feature (techcrunch.com)
Tomorrow Facebook will encounter a slew of fresh complexities with the launch of Community Actions, its News Feed petition feature. From a report: Community Actions could unite neighbors to request change from their local and national elected officials and government agencies. But it could also provide vocal interest groups a bully pulpit from which to pressure politicians and bureaucrats with their fringe agendas. Community Actions embodies the central challenge facing Facebook. Every tool it designs for positive expression and connectivity can be subverted for polarization and misinformation. Facebook's membership has swelled into such a ripe target for exploitation that it draws out the worst of humanity. You can imagine misuses like "Crack down on [minority group]" that are offensive or even dangerous but some see as legitimate. The question is whether Facebook puts in the forethought and aftercare to safeguard its new tools with proper policy and moderation. Otherwise each new feature is another liability.
Community Actions start to roll out to the US tomorrow after several weeks of testing in a couple of markets. Users can add a title, description, and image to their Community Action, and tag relevant government agencies and officials who'll be notified. The goal is to make the Community Action go viral and get people to hit the "Support" button. Community Actions have their own discussion feed where people can leave comments, create fundraisers, and organize Facebook Events or Call Your Rep campaigns. Facebook displays the numbers of supporters behind a Community Action, but you'll only be able to see the names of those you're friends with or that are Pages or public figures.
Community Actions start to roll out to the US tomorrow after several weeks of testing in a couple of markets. Users can add a title, description, and image to their Community Action, and tag relevant government agencies and officials who'll be notified. The goal is to make the Community Action go viral and get people to hit the "Support" button. Community Actions have their own discussion feed where people can leave comments, create fundraisers, and organize Facebook Events or Call Your Rep campaigns. Facebook displays the numbers of supporters behind a Community Action, but you'll only be able to see the names of those you're friends with or that are Pages or public figures.
Yet another Facebook feature that will be overrun by Russian bots
... to creating petitions to promote them!
Impeach!
Because that would be it’s most useful feature
for the elimination of Facebook.
Facebook is helping the authorities know your political leanings with this petition "feature".
If you think that doesn't matter, you need to read more history.
Community Actions could unite neighbors to request change from their local and national elected officials and government agencies. But it could also provide vocal interest groups a bully pulpit from which to pressure politicians and bureaucrats with their fringe agendas. Community Actions embodies the central challenge facing Facebook. Every tool it designs for positive expression and connectivity can be subverted for polarization and misinformation. Facebook's membership has swelled into such a ripe target for exploitation that it draws out the worst of humanity. You can imagine misuses like "Crack down on [minority group]" that are offensive or even dangerous but some see as legitimate. The question is whether Facebook puts in the forethought and aftercare to safeguard its new tools with proper policy and moderation. Otherwise each new feature is another liability.
I see this again and again from the mentally stunted. Yes, a petition can be launched to spread awareness of animal torture. A petition can also be launched to inspire more animal torture. That is not subversion! It is the same damn thing, but with the moral values inverted! What we in the west consider great moral virtues may be considered absolutely haram in the middle-east. The same thing happens within a country, where some people vote right and some people vote left. Don't pretend like it's some sort of nefarious scheme to voice your (quite possibly retarded) opinion just because other's don't share it.
The problem with the FB petition system is that it is open to everyone, which means that it's open to even the smallest groups within society, the extremists. As long as you force a threshold before any petition can be seen easily, it will be fine. Dumb petitions that relate to American Idol will still be viral, but extremist stuff will be kept to a minimum. That will make the system bland admittedly, but it will work for real issues.
Seriously ... I will unfollow anyone who shares one of these idiotic Facebook petitions, the same way I unfollow anyone who insists on sharing every bit of braindead clickbait they see, or who insists on posting nonstop political screeds.
You can definitely tell that Facebook's engagement metrics are falling, and that Zuckerberg is sweating over it, when "features" like this are pushed into user's faces.
We've already got whitehouse petitions, and several hundred activist sight petitions etc.... What have we learned from it? That nobody in power gives a damn about online petitions (probalby any petitions in general). Generally you have to get an insane amount of signatures to get a response... typically that response is "We'll think about it".
"We the undersigned hereby partition Lord Zuckerberg to close Facebook and stop selling us to the NSA and ad companies."
Who's with me on this? ... Oh wait, this won't work, I need a Facebook account for that.
Not on Facebook
split up Facebook
Go well
Like polls. Polls are cool. Unless you have a Facebook Page. Then you are restricted to only 2 poll options.
I'm struggling to think of a single occasion where a petition has achieved what it set out to. In almost all cases they are simply ignored since there's absolutely no reason for anyone to pay attention to them.
There are far better means of making people listen. If you want to petition a company, you stop buying their product. If you want to petition a politician, you stop voting for them until they start paying attention. If you want to petition a politician and you're a large company or well funded non-profit organisation, you bribe them, but you call it a campaign donation to legitimise your corruption.
The only purpose of a petition is to allow people to feel good about themselves while achieving precisely nothing.
You have no idea what you're blathering about. Petitions become ballot measures become law all the time. Why would you advertise how little you know about this without researching it?
"The only purpose of a Ashthon opining about something he knows nothing about is to allow Ashthon to feel good about themselves while achieving precisely nothing." - FTFY
this is the exact opposite of what social media needs... fuck us.
The parent was posted by Alexander Peter Kowalski. He's obsessed with spamming Slashdot. And now it's time for Slashdot to put an end to this antisemitic spam.
So here's the deal... I'll be reporting each if there posts to Slashdot. If they aren't deleted within 12 hours, I'm going to take a screenshot and email it to every advertiser on the page. I'll let them know their ads are being displayed along with antisemitic hate speech. I'll also post about each instance of this on social media, so the public knows the advertisers are condoning hate speech.
Slashdot has two options:
1) Eliminate this hate speech.
2) Lose your ad revenue because advertisers don't want their products promoted alongside hate speech.
Blackmailing slashdot Jew? Figures. You fear facts about you. I don't see proof of it being APK. I see you can't prove anything in it incorrect though you snivelling disgusting JEW RACIST!
I bet snivelling JEW blackmailing slashdot against facts he can't beat will do it again like here https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... ?
Get your popcorn, folks. This is going to be a sh*tshow of epic proportions.
I propose we Facebook be renamed "Facey McBookpants"
Failing that, better privacy rules, stronger vetting of fake accounts, maybe turn it orange, whatever.
Mob rule, that's all this garbage is. Retweets, likes, thumbs up whatever you want to call it. It's all based on EMOTIONS, not facts.
Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.
Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.
This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Jew Talmud excerpts (the book that calls Christ's mother a whore & a bastard of a roman soldier):
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen H
My first petition will be a petition to not make petitions on failbook.
Giving the people a voice, has a number of problems: ...".
- "This isn't the government I voted for, I'll attack it with guns"
- Fake news channels (eg. 'Info Wars') labeling activists as prostitutes, communists, propagandists.
- A non-militant channel (eg. BLM, #MeToo) being hijacked by political activists (eg. Trump for 2020).
- The online channel filled with fake news (See Facebook) to generate advert revenue.
- People feeling victimized by fake news and responding with violence (eg. Anti-fa in Charlottesville).
- Militant channels demanding "You're with me or you're a pedophile/communist/terrorist".
- Moneyed interests (eg. corporations) proclaiming "This is not the time to discuss
They are probably downmodding it because they recognize the poor copy-and-paste job (what's with the repeat paragraphs?): https://pastebin.com/aqA2kf5A
The best petition would be to completely dismantle Facebook. Facebook has done more damage to democracies than most terrorist attacks. Facebook should be treated like the anti-democratic organization it is. Facebook's executives should be held accountable (i.e. trials and prison time) for the damage they have caused.
"Every tool it designs for positive expression and connectivity can be subverted for polarization and misinformation."
this is true for any tool, doesn't matter that it is facebook related.
"The question is whether Facebook puts in the forethought and aftercare to safeguard its new tools with proper policy and moderation."
we also already know the answer to this; no, they don't care about our privacy or ethics in general.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
They are probably downmodding it because they recognize the poor copy-and-paste job (what's with the repeat paragraphs?): https://pastebin.com/aqA2kf5A
It's a real shame that the Jews didn't do 9/11. Still the KSA is the 2nd best choice for topical humour value. I can't even begin to describe the joy I experience when I watch re-runs and see bewildered little cunts like novakyu getting exploded out of windows.
Jesus will be utterly forgotten in a thousand years time, but Osama Bin Laden will be a hero as long as humanity exists.
So long as it's use to:
Petition Facebook to reveal who it has sold users data to.
Petition Facebook to give the user control over what data is collected
Petition Facebook to be far more transparent about its moderation
Petition Facebook to take community feedback about it's standards
Petition Facebook to promote free speech...
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The denizens of "Selfie Land" are going to band together to create petitions. What could possibly go wrong there? After all, are they not the smartest, brightest, and most engaged people we have?
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
Oh, wait... they don't have to... Facebook can ALREADY go fuck itself. This means Facebook is feature-complete, as far as I'm concerned. The entire site is garbage, and if/when it finally goes away, nothing of value will have been lost. Fuck Facebook forever and ever.
No, the problem with Facebook is that it is an echo chamber that is easy to manipulate.
That's the problem with ALL online social sites, Slashdot included. All sides of the political spectrum start using it to push an agenda and as time goes on they tend to drift to the extremes on both sides. I hate to say this, but I'm seeing that happen here lately.
Welcome to 2019 and the dawning of the Era of Groupthink. You will enjoy your stay, whether you like it or not. The Masses will make sure if it.
Beware of Sales Reps bearing gifts.