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Speculative: Before enough users start moving away maybe Facebook will figure out how to make it a legal requirement for us citizens to have a Facebook. You la

Speculative: Before enough users start moving away maybe Facebook will figure out how to make it a legal requirement for us citizens to have a Facebook. You laugh now ... you can buy me a drink in 10 years or so.

joubert 6y ago
Legal requirement for citizens to have a FB account seems highly highly unlikely to me, but perhaps I’m not paying sufficient attention. Why do you speculate that? Specifically, do you see signs of changes that could likely lead to that outcome?
- flattone 6y ago
  My signals for suspecting this Or something like it being a near future outcome are a result of not connected observations. 1) the amount of sharing we already do. 20 years ago my family / social interactions would find it nearly impossible to even bother entertaining the current status of privacy. The idea you basically HAVE to have a cell phone and email to get any decent paying job, traffic cameras everywhere, and now corporations pushing their black box ML and hardware into municipalities / vetting with police support 2) volunteering approx EVERY biometric a person has to skip a line at airport screening (Clear, the company facilitating this) 3) political adversity to privacy and encryption 4) hacker news. Where I hope and aspire to participate in the best most curious and supportive manner. I held the conversations here in high regard and told outsiders of how productive and intelligent the conversations are (they are). Yet I frequently find many downvotes when I comment in opposition to Facebook, slightly less common re google etc. 5) in takeaway I have observed cultural changes, market, political and security practices changing... all in a direction of - whatever this possible, seems not good, and seems highly unlikely but valuable to entities in power - might actually happen. Thanks!
netchkin 6y ago
Reminds me a bit of The Circle movie from netflix (https://www.netflix.com/cz-en/title/80098473 https://www.netflix.com/cz-en/title/80098473), where a similar idea comes up.

joubert 6y ago

Legal requirement for citizens to have a FB account seems highly highly unlikely to me, but perhaps I’m not paying sufficient attention. Why do you speculate that? Specifically, do you see signs of changes that could likely lead to that outcome?

flattone 6y ago
My signals for suspecting this Or something like it being a near future outcome are a result of not connected observations. 1) the amount of sharing we already do. 20 years ago my family / social interactions would find it nearly impossible to even bother entertaining the current status of privacy. The idea you basically HAVE to have a cell phone and email to get any decent paying job, traffic cameras everywhere, and now corporations pushing their black box ML and hardware into municipalities / vetting with police support 2) volunteering approx EVERY biometric a person has to skip a line at airport screening (Clear, the company facilitating this) 3) political adversity to privacy and encryption 4) hacker news. Where I hope and aspire to participate in the best most curious and supportive manner. I held the conversations here in high regard and told outsiders of how productive and intelligent the conversations are (they are). Yet I frequently find many downvotes when I comment in opposition to Facebook, slightly less common re google etc. 5) in takeaway I have observed cultural changes, market, political and security practices changing... all in a direction of - whatever this possible, seems not good, and seems highly unlikely but valuable to entities in power - might actually happen. Thanks!

netchkin 6y ago

Reminds me a bit of The Circle movie from netflix (https://www.netflix.com/cz-en/title/80098473 https://www.netflix.com/cz-en/title/80098473), where a similar idea comes up.