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He is clearly viewing this as another technical problem to solve. He's a highly technical person; this follows. But the issues he's being confronted with aren'
by Kapura 6y ago
He is clearly viewing this as another technical problem to solve. He's a highly technical person; this follows.
But the issues he's being confronted with aren't technical issues of permissions and algorithm tuning; they're societal problems of power dynamics and information manipulation. These are human traits. They aren't problems that are "solved." They're issues that you have to take a stance on. Do you believe in letting people lie on your platform? What about advertisers? What if the advertiser is a political party?
Further, this feels like it's worth precisely nothing, given what he says right up top:
>I want to be clear that while we are looking at all of these areas, we may not come up with changes we want to make in all of them.
Zuck has shown himself unwilling to accept the responsibility of controlling his platform. He is failing every user and employee of Facebook.
- _jal 6y ago> He is clearly viewing this as another technical problem to solve I think you misspelled PR. Facebook has repeatedly followed variants of this script. Do what Zuckerberg and Sandberg want, and if it blows up, find a way to finesse it or at least block and tackle until humanity is distracted by the next outrage. They lie, distract and keep doing whatever they want.
- ikeyany 6y agoYou mean how after the Cambridge Analytica scandal when he testified in front of Congress? And how literally nothing came from that?
- enraged_camel 6y ago>> He's a highly technical person; this follows. Is Zuckerberg even that technical? I’m aware he worked on the site originally, but never got the impression that he was highly talented (compared to, say, Google’s founders).
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- aspenmayer 6y agoDid the Winklevoss twins ever talk about that in interviews? I think they wrote most of the source code for ConnectU, which Zuckerberg was at the very least aware of. I don’t recall if he or Facebook was ever found guilty of misusing ConnectU code in Facebook. In fact, the settlement that was reached between the relevant parties has had many court cases of its own since the settlement was reached, regarding lost value of agreed-upon stock value which had lessened relative to the value suggested by Facebook at settlement. The court cases may even be continuing to this day, but I couldn’t really tell from reading a few wiki pages and sources. I don’t have an answer, sorry. But hopefully someone else can correct me and fill in the gaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU
- amachefe 6y ago> He is failing every user and employee of Facebook. I wont agree on every. In fact, many FB employees prefer to avoid getting involved in the mud fight
- legolas2412 6y agoI'm not a FB employee, and nor a trump supporter. But I'd argue that fighting censorship is also a moral obligation for free speech.
- dingaling 6y ago> He is failing every user and employee of Facebook. Why are users seen as powerless vassals? Why aren't they assigned any responsibility for their actions? It's entirely possible to use Facebook as a "read-only" Rolodexfor finding people for personal communication. There's no need to "engage" with whatever public posts are "promoted".