*There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed.*
That's not really true. They share info all the time. And if you look at their investment portfolios they share ownership also, so your money spreads far and wide. And strangers can post your name and picture on facebook or any other site.
We can vote in or out the government of our choice. We can choose politicians that aren't led around by the nose by a corporate master and stop reelecting the ones that are, if we so choose.
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I cannot believe anybody would defend this, but these are mad times!
Somebody take his gun away
I so closely proctor my children's use of social media
Yeah, but what to you gamble in the process?
The majority of social media users do no filtering at all
That would be a personal problem, not one for the site owners to deal with.
This might just be the dumbest thing I've ever read
That leads to the assumption you don't read much :-)
Peace!
Words aren't bullets. They have no physical intrinsic power.
Whoops! So sorry. Yes, I agree with that assessment. On the other hand US politics aren't exactly a perfect picture of sanity either.
Stolen from another site:
Britain: Brexit is the most shocking thing a country will do this year.
America: Hold my beer...
About as valid as "gay conversion therapy". Chiropractors for the mind. But this is the land of opportunity, so why not?
That post should not have been modded down.
*There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed.*
People, take note of this...
I can control which corporations I interact with.
That's not really true. They share info all the time. And if you look at their investment portfolios they share ownership also, so your money spreads far and wide. And strangers can post your name and picture on facebook or any other site.
We can vote in or out the government of our choice. We can choose politicians that aren't led around by the nose by a corporate master and stop reelecting the ones that are, if we so choose.
The truly bad idea was in trying to implement a filter in the first place.
That is the message that will go unheeded for all time. Let the readers do their own filtering. They do anyway.
Because they knew that just cutting our losses and leaving at that point would be a disastrous move.
And that's different from today, how exactly?
Nothing's bigger than Donald Trump. He's the biggest. And the growing season is too short to find greener pastures in Canada.
The only way to fix this is get money out of politics.
Worthless sound bite.. What is that supposed to mean? The only proper way to deal with it is to stop voting for people who take the bribes.
They did oppose many of Bush's programs, such as his continuing the Iraq War as long as he did
No they didn't. They signed off on it every time, then grumbled a bit about it to no effect.
Well, we'll just have to look at Truman's emails to Stalin.
I feel so helpless...
So, it's pretty easy to wreck a nice beach these days, huh?
It's just as important, if not more so, that the users know if their apps are vulnerable. It is irresponsible not to inform them.
Forgetting either check then leaves the third-party app vulnerable.
Yet these "researchers" are leaving the user in the dark by not identifying the apps. That makes their paper pretty useless.
That still doesn't excuse not identifying who screwed up so we can purge the offending apps. Who are they protecting, and why?
I guess this is what trolls do
Very helpful to those who may be using them. Thanks guys!
To be expected
I demand that they go further and ban discrimination based on looks. And weight. Or rank odor.
And talent! Dull clumsy oafs have rights too, you know