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15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
- Balgair 8y ago>Yet sometimes the two big values involved—privacy and civility—come into opposition. If you give people ways to keep their data completely secret, you also create secret tunnels where rats can scurry around undetected. In other words, every choice involves a trade-off, and every trade-off means some value has been spurned. And every value that you spurn—particularly when you’re Facebook in 2018—means that a hammer is going to come down on your head. Some good journalism here. I'd not explicitly understood this before, but it makes sense. Nothing is perfect.
- tsunamifury 8y agoThis was a shockingly thorough piece, with great insider knowledge. But the writer made bizarre editorializations randomly throughout the piece, calling Facebook (one of the most profitable companies in the world) a knight hopping on one leg -- not exactly a believable comparison. Continuous pot shots were taken throughout the piece randomly that came off as petty rather than insightful -- including implicating that Facebook had targeted Wired to reduce traffic in retaliation for a story. Its an exciting story, with the worst mix of highly accurate storytelling and extremely slanted weasel words at key moments. Not much different than the mis-information campaigns facebook was accused of promoting.
- dredmorbius 8y agoPity this sank on HN, but it's an excellent and meaty article.