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Ad hominems never help your argument but do degrade the discussion. Please avoid them. The idea of "giving away" a right is not that simple--for example, I thi
by tikhonj 15y ago
Ad hominems never help your argument but do degrade the discussion. Please avoid them.
The idea of "giving away" a right is not that simple--for example, I think there are certain rights you cannot legally waive. Even if what Facebook is doing is legal (which it probably is), this same principle can reasonably be extended to condemn what they are doing from an ethical standpoint.
Additionally, Facebook does not only affect the people using it. Information about people without accounts (provided by people with accounts) is still archived and searchable, potentially by unsavory entities. For these people, a certain right to privacy is basically taken away, and certainly not given away.
- tedunangst 15y agoI'm serious. Deliberately failing to make that distinction is intellectually dishonest, and that degrades the discussion. As to your second point, Facebook is not running around taking pictures of you. Your friends are. If your privacy is being violated, it's your friends (to use the term loosely) who are doing it. Facebook provides a platform, but they are not the primary actor. That's another distinction I don't see being made frequently enough.