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This is bad news all around. It is likely a huge percentage of searches performed by people will not enrich lives but most people will use it to mine out insigh
by electic 14y ago
This is bad news all around. It is likely a huge percentage of searches performed by people will not enrich lives but most people will use it to mine out insights that others don't wish to be publicized.
Can you imagine people being rounded up in China over this and put into prisons over their "like".
- fletchowns 14y agoYou don't even have to imagine, it's already happened.
- thefreeman 14y agoDo you have a link with more information?
- fletchowns 14y agohttp://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/19/indian-woman-arrested-over-facebook-like/ http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/19/indian-woman-arrested-ov...
- electic 14y agoThat's true. Forgot about that case. I guess cases like this will explode in frequency.
- unreal37 14y agoThey don't have Facebook in the Great Firewall of China. And if they DID, people there wouldn't be liking Falun Gong. It's a bogus example.
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- leoc 14y ago> It's a bogus example. Is it, though? The search mentions a user who liked the Falun Gong branch in [a European city - they could probably anonymise this one a bit more]. I'm guessing there are a fairly large number of people who leave China to study or work, join Facebook while abroad, then return to the PRC at some point.
- crdoconnor 14y agoIt's a search for people who have family members in China. Not people in China.
- leoc 14y agoPrison? That might not be the worst of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgour-Matas_report http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilgour-Matas_report