You share things on Facebook that you don't care that other people know. [...] If you use Facebook for anything that even approaches the requirement of "privacy", then you are a complete idiot.
Facebook was instrumental in the Arab Spring precisely because people shared things they cared about. Does that make them complete idiots or rather brave heroes?
As FB (and others) are cozying up to dictatorships such as China, it becomes crucial whether we can trust them.
That said, cases like that of this man detained in Syria are possible without any collaboration between a regime and FB; ironically, the "man in the middle" role is less powerful because of FB's requirement to use real names. So the two privacy concerns cancel each other out to some degree.
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You share things on Facebook that you don't care that other people know. [...] If you use Facebook for anything that even approaches the requirement of "privacy", then you are a complete idiot.
Facebook was instrumental in the Arab Spring precisely because people shared things they cared about. Does that make them complete idiots or rather brave heroes?
As FB (and others) are cozying up to dictatorships such as China, it becomes crucial whether we can trust them.
That said, cases like that of this man detained in Syria are possible without any collaboration between a regime and FB; ironically, the "man in the middle" role is less powerful because of FB's requirement to use real names. So the two privacy concerns cancel each other out to some degree.