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I have a different and more pessimistic perspective. My pessimism is actually derived from my Facebook feed as well. I haven't seen a single posting about PRISM
by dclusin 13y ago
I have a different and more pessimistic perspective. My pessimism is actually derived from my Facebook feed as well. I haven't seen a single posting about PRISM or any discussion of the massive surveillance state that we have created from people outside of the technology industry. My facebook friends consist largely of people whom I've grown up with or known since childhood. I have approximately 226 FB friends and of those approximately 20 are developers. The only posts even mentioning these shenanigans are from a few of those developers. YMMV I guess.
- JumpCrisscross 13y agoDitto, almost all the substantive debate I see comes from the British, French, German, and Chinese press.
- hobs 13y agoAgree, even at around people I know I still dont hear about it, and these are people who are on the internet every day. General public? I just hear SSDD.
- munin 13y agoI was sitting in the airport waiting for a flight today for two hours and heard NSA discussed on the news channel at least once an hour. this was on whatever local news channel for seattle they had in seatac, so, maybe you just have tuned out friends...
- gojomo 13y agoBut what if the Facebook feed algorithms found that talking about the NSA bums people out, thus decreasing engagement and revenue? They might then decrease the visibility of such discussion. What you observe might be a real phenomenon – the 'normals' are barely aware of the NSA stories so far. But something so carefully curated by a for-profit entity as the Facebook feed (or similarly, the national TV networks' nightly half-hour news) is not going to give a representative sampling of people's concerns.