seangrant

This is something I've wondered... Do all Facebook/Google employees drink the Kool aid? Are there no privacy proponents?

Rule-based ad blocking limited to 30k, as stated in the article. That's why people are upset.

Extreme moderation that makes conversation as boring as possible. That's how subreddits like /r/science stay sane.

Because cost is prohibitive.

How would it look if someone else got the patent and completely blocked Google? It's not even a question for large companies. The issue is this archaic patent and copyright system where someone "owns" an idea... Absurd.

Never underestimate the power of fake internet points.

Not in America

It upsets me a lot how these financial institutions have complete power over us. God forbid a bank writes a loan to a scammer in your name, cause to them it's your fault. Absurd!

A consenting adult pays another consenting adult with more experience to do a life threatening task together. One dies. How is this not okay? What are you expecting? For people to never climb Mt Everest again?

The point of the crystal clear rules is to reduce how much the human operator needs to think about what they're doing. Should you teach your workers every legal nuance they need to sell a car (and hope they follow them), or do you setup clearly defined rules that can be easily followed and repeated?

Snapchat is not a "dick pic network" and if you've read the article maybe you could understand how someone can have a personal connection to a website, it's users, and the culture around it.

Why would they shut down all their locations at once, losing hundreds of thousands in income, if not for the media and social attention it would receive?

Simply put, why close business when these trainings can be done staggered or off store hours? That's my line of thinking.

The fact that they're doing it all on one day at the same time implies it's mostly about the PR

Sounds like your life has been gracious to give you many different experiences. I think the distaste is mostly from people who've worked their lives in an office job. Yeah it's cake, but are you gonna do it for 40 years and die happy?

The fear comes from exactly that. People aren't worried about targeted advertising. People are worried that swathes of their data isn't "theirs" anymore and can suddenly be used maliciously. Sure maybe not by Facebook. But Facebook's customers? The customers to those customers?