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> The fact is, NO ONE understood all of these consequences so clearly decades ago. I think a lot of people understood the consequences pretty clearly. Think o
by QualityReboot 8y ago
> The fact is, NO ONE understood all of these consequences so clearly decades ago.
I think a lot of people understood the consequences pretty clearly. Think of the nerds you know who refused to use Facebook. They knew.
> Show me the enlightened people who were concerned about privacy back when FB was a joke if you want to argue that. I didn't see any.
There's a bunch, but RMS immediately comes to mind: https://stallman.org/ https://stallman.org/
Here's a collection of essays sponsored by the FSF: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/essays-and-articles.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/essays-and-articles.en.html
- zaptheimpaler 8y agoGreat, but the world as a whole voted with their money and funded Facebook, they voted with their time and used it. I think its ridiculous for everyone to wash their hands of all responsibility now and blame it on the easiest targets.
- QualityReboot 8y agoThe whole world still doesn't care about these issues and still votes with their time and money to fund Facebook. They will until there's something "better". If we care, it's our job to make something better that the public will throw their time and money at. An op-ed like this one in the New York Times only means that we've transitioned from only privacy-conscious nerds finding Facebook offensive to the elite class beginning to understand that there might be something wrong. That took over a decade. It'll probably take 20 years before Facebook is dead and we've all moved to a decentralized solution.