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Does someone have an agenda against Facebook on HN? I see four stories a day on the front page.

by throwaway415415 8y ago

Kinnard 8y ago
How would you operationalize this in order to do an analysis on HN's public data?
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aklemm 8y ago
Facebook has a lot to answer for and those answers haven't been forthcoming yet.
imjustsaying 8y ago
You could also ask if someone has an agenda for nytimes.com. This is the 21st article posted to them in 24 hours.
TheOperator 8y ago
Facebook is symbolic of social media as a whole. They're EXTREMELY large. They're also uniquely entangled in privacy scandals. They're also a company with the gall to create their own internet centered around facebook.
coldtea 8y ago
>Does someone have an agenda against Facebook on HN? Shouldn't everybody have one?
rleigh 8y ago
If facebook wasn't continually mired in controversy, then maybe it wouldn't feature so frequently and so prominently. Today, I've just read a paper copy of the Daily Telegraph (UK). The front page is a story about how a depressed 14 year girl committed suicide after being led into a downward spiral of despair by being fed a continual stream of self-harm images by a facebook property. Those lovely algorithms could have been made to make positive contributions to people in need of help. Instead, they caused a vulnerable teenager to end their life by making a bad situation even worse. I do feel that companies like Facebook should have a social and moral responsibility to their users. They are in a position of great power and responsibility. And yet, they have shown scant evidence of any care in this regard, and they do have a case to answer. Not just for the single story I highlighted, but many years of utter callousness and greed in defiance of what most of us would consider acceptable ethical conduct.
- officemonkey 8y ago
  Let's generalize: I do feel that companies should have a social and moral responsibility to their users. Sadly, companies only have a social and moral responsibility to their shareholders. It's one of the reasons why corporations are not people, they're more often immortal sociopaths.

Does someone have an agenda against Facebook on HN? I see four stories a day on the front page.

Kinnard 8y ago

How would you operationalize this in order to do an analysis on HN's public data?

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aklemm 8y ago

Facebook has a lot to answer for and those answers haven't been forthcoming yet.

imjustsaying 8y ago

You could also ask if someone has an agenda for nytimes.com. This is the 21st article posted to them in 24 hours.

TheOperator 8y ago

Facebook is symbolic of social media as a whole. They're EXTREMELY large. They're also uniquely entangled in privacy scandals. They're also a company with the gall to create their own internet centered around facebook.

coldtea 8y ago

>Does someone have an agenda against Facebook on HN? Shouldn't everybody have one?

rleigh 8y ago

If facebook wasn't continually mired in controversy, then maybe it wouldn't feature so frequently and so prominently. Today, I've just read a paper copy of the Daily Telegraph (UK). The front page is a story about how a depressed 14 year girl committed suicide after being led into a downward spiral of despair by being fed a continual stream of self-harm images by a facebook property. Those lovely algorithms could have been made to make positive contributions to people in need of help. Instead, they caused a vulnerable teenager to end their life by making a bad situation even worse. I do feel that companies like Facebook should have a social and moral responsibility to their users. They are in a position of great power and responsibility. And yet, they have shown scant evidence of any care in this regard, and they do have a case to answer. Not just for the single story I highlighted, but many years of utter callousness and greed in defiance of what most of us would consider acceptable ethical conduct.

officemonkey 8y ago
Let's generalize: I do feel that companies should have a social and moral responsibility to their users. Sadly, companies only have a social and moral responsibility to their shareholders. It's one of the reasons why corporations are not people, they're more often immortal sociopaths.