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If their intention is to subvert American democracy, then yes, the Russian government is the enemy in this case.
by mikeyouse 8y ago
If their intention is to subvert American democracy, then yes, the Russian government is the enemy in this case.
- cft 8y agoHas American democracy been contacted out to Facebook? FYI Google created search by scraping sites.
- threeseed 8y agoGoogle never created search. According to Andreessen they were the 23rd company he saw. And by then there were established controls to stop Google from indexing your sites i.e. robots.txt. These Russian companies are not following the rules Facebook has set so it's not really analogous to Google.
- cft 8y agoNot obeying robots.txt is at most a civil matter, such as Craigslist vs. 3Taps (largely unsettled btw, because internet is public by design). My question still stands.
- prolikewh0a 8y agoFacebook is subverting American democracy by censoring news that's outside of the status quo. They're now censoring American media as well [1]. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/technology/fake-news-online-disinformation.html?module=inline https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/technology/fake-news-onli...
- dev_dull 8y agoThe article is about a foreign government using data sold (or given for free) by an American anti-privacy company to build a facial recognition database. We seem to be plenty capable of subverting our own democracy without anybody’s help.