Discussion: Facebook Changes Course, Now Plans To Turn Over Russian Ads To Congress

The prospect of prosecution does that.

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ā€œHe bluntly compared tightening internal advertising standards to prior restraint. ā€œWe donā€™t check what people say before they say it and I donā€™t think society should want us to,ā€ Zuckerberg said. ā€œFreedom means you donā€™t have to ask for permission first.ā€ā€ Shorter Zuckerberg: feel free to spew your lies on our platform, just so long as you are willing to pay for it, we wonā€™t stop you

"ā€œI donā€™t want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy AGAIN,ā€ Zuckerberg said
FIFY dickhead

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ā€¦and people wonder why I refuse to establish a FB account.

If I wanted to know what someone ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner - and where they spent the afternoon, I would go to the attic, open a trunk, and read the diaries of my ā€œspinsterā€ great-aunts.

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Zuckerberg initially lied about Facebookā€™s role in the election which is evidence of a guilty conscience. He must be held responsible for his companyā€™s involvment in the Russian conspiracy to elect Trump.

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Iā€™m not First Amendment or privacy expert, but this all seems a bit silly on Facebookā€™s part.

  • There surely can be no expectation of privacy for advertisements actually published.
  • Likewise, there can be no reasonable expectation of privacy for the customer buying advertising.
  • Since the ads have already been published, there is no First Amendment right for Facebook to protect. There is no First Amendment right to dissemination ads in secret.

Facebook is trying to avoid embarrassment. Too late Mark.

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So true. Iā€™ll FIFY that little shit even further:

ā€œI donā€™t want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy again,ā€ Zuckerberg said. ā€œBut thatā€™s what we do.ā€

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If anyone wishes to know, hereā€™s how you delete your FB account:

Pass it on as often as possible.

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My guess is that the board had to tell Mark that he canā€™t get everyone to like him and then he cried in his office for an hour.

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Why not run a fact check on it then label it.

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I have always thought that FBā€™s success is a delicate bubble which could pop practically overnight. As far as I know, there is nothing special about their product that people couldnā€™t find elsewhere.

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Yes Zuckerberg appears to believe that he is an arm of the government.

You are correct about the expectation of privacy not existing for ads that are actually published - thatā€™s beyond absurd.

And I agree with the rest of the comment. Somebody needs to give this country a course in Constitutional Law. Nobody seems to get the First Amendment.

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ā€œthe amount of problematic content that weā€™ve found so far remains relatively small,ā€

Who does he think heā€™s fooling? When you try to withhold information, then are forced to turn some over, then finally open the taps youā€™re announcing to the world something went horribly wrongā€¦or horribly right.

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Do you have nieces and nephews who say the same thing? Asking for a friend.

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My general optimism concerning humanity refuses to accept that Facebook could be more than a passing fad. Iā€™m convinced that a hundred years for now it will be forgotten.

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Like you had a fucking choice, Mark.

3,000 ads. $100,000. Do these figures line up, or do they reflect separate but overlapping datasets? Itā€™s hard to believe that someone went along buying a bunch of $33 ad buys. The microtargeting in that effort had to be amazing.

No, no, donā€™t give Michael Fredericks ā€˜NATO fair shareā€™ ad. He will be more deeply touched by ā€˜NATO countries not spend enough on militaryā€™ ad.

And then you send the NATO fair share ad to 300 people, and the NATO spend more on military ad to 572 people.

Cā€™mon. No fucking way. This tranche of 3,000 ads repreents more than $100,000, so weā€™ve moved into new territory here, right?

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Yes too bad we had some one who understood Constitutional Law and wasnā€™t respected, believed, and bedeviled at every turn. I understand from our brethren on the right that some who taught Constitutional Law didnā€™t really know it and didnā€™t really have a job.

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See how everything works so much better when a non-lawyer gets elected?

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More likely itā€™s the knowledge that regulation is on the horizon. They wonā€™t be able to head it off and will soon have to follow the same rules broadcast mediums have to obey.

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