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No matter how much of a mistake Facebook make with their PR, they're gonna get away with it. Primarily because a majority of the public can't sustain their int
by iwannasay 9y ago
No matter how much of a mistake Facebook make with their PR, they're gonna get away with it.
Primarily because a majority of the public can't sustain their interest in the subject beyond their day-to-day concerns in life.
I mean the whole argument here is that stolen user data from Facebook led a marketing agency to enable a political party with a certain agenda to deceive the public and win a democratic vote. Gathering so much power is a big victory in the first place, that is not so easy to ignore / forget / undo very easily, especially when most people continue to use Facebook products the way they did because the news slowly becomes old and people forget and move on.
This subject is bigger than Facebook, it reveals shortcomings of a democratic vote and how power in the capitalist system can render a democracy to be an illusion. Facebook's victory is to have accumulated so much power in the first place. Power aka most personal user data any institute has ever gathered. Never mind they used shady sly tactics to take permissions in the first place.