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Why all the name calling? The issue may not be all about corp hating hippy helicopter moms but something more important to everyone. The issue (to me) really s
by ItendToDisagree 13y ago
Why all the name calling? The issue may not be all about corp hating hippy helicopter moms but something more important to everyone.
The issue (to me) really seems to be that a company is using images they do not own, that depict people's children (who cannot legally consent to their pictures being used or any other contract), for their own profit.
Regardless of if this is Facebook or anyone else it seems like there is an issue with the company claiming the right to use other peoples images for advertisements.
I seem to remember a big flap about Instagram claiming they own the rights to peoples photos in the recent past. In this case it seems like there is the additional issue of the photos picturing people's children.
Edit: I understand putting the text "so and so Likes this company" next to something if they actually 'liked' it. But the article implies that they are using the person's image in a custom advertisement in the feed.
- Atroxide 13y agoI think the whole article is sensational. I don't see any ads with actual friends. I do see what they like, but not actual ads. The author is just wording everything to make facebook seem worse.
- bertil 13y agoWhy the name calling? Because, given Facebook size, it should be addressed with calm and enough technical skillset — and because nothing gets on my nerves more than the “I'm a mum, therefore I'm right” argument. Having a vagina does not make anyone a specialist on gender issues (unlike what far too many people think), education and obviously not social networking policies.
- DanBC 13y agoSpit the hook. You got trolled hard by a bit of click bait in the shitty opinion section of an otherwise good newspaper.
- yuubi 13y agoEarlier articles [1] have said that one could click "Like" on a company's page and then have one's name and picture show up in a sidebar ad apparently endorsing a later post that one had never seen and perhaps found distasteful. I don't know whether this practice has changed or changed-so-some-peripheral-point-is-untrue-but-the-core-objection-is-still-present since. [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/21/facebook-is-recycling-your-likes-to-promote-stories-youve-never-seen-to-all-your-friends/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2013/01/21/faceboo...