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Comment · 8 years ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46302140
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/facebook-role-rohingy...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambr...
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/what-...
Some of these are direct actions by the company. Some are unintended consequences. And this isn't even getting into the personal harm and unhealthy behavior that comes from use of Facebook and similar manipulative social media.
Comment · 8 years ago
Because Facebook is a horrible company and an increasing amount of information about just how bad they really are is coming to light lately.
Comment · 8 years ago
The article explains why.
Facebook is a genuinely evil company with genuinely evil people doing genuinely evil things to manipulate the world in negative ways, and I want nothing to do with them. They've been immoral/unethical from the start.
They manipulate their users, cause genuine harm to people, the world, and democracy, and should not be rewarded with continued use of their services.
Edit: Because people have been downvoting/flagging my comments, I'm no longer allowed to reply to people and continue the discussion.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm not going to tell anyone else what they should do, but I am unwilling to use or associate with any of their services or properties.
Comment · 8 years ago
Am I the only irritated by these inevitable questions from people with no sense of literary craft any time an article from the New Yorker is posted on HN?
Comment · 8 years ago
It was first implemented under Obama, but it was authorized by Congress in the 2006 Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act. https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih....
Comment · 8 years ago
The Wireless Emergency Alerts system, authorized in the 2006 Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act.
https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih....
Comment · 8 years ago
Considering that it's run by FEMA, and they are mandated by law to only use it in national emergencies, and multiple FEMA officials have to sign off on any message sent out, political misuse of it is fairly unlikely.
Comment · 8 years ago
Because the 2006 law authorizing this mandated that Presidential Alerts not be able to be disabled.
https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih....
Comment · 8 years ago
There are a few possible scenarios where a national alert makes sense: ICBM launches that they either can't yet predict the target of or on a scale that is targeting across the country, massive cyberattacks targeting national infrastructure, supervolcano eruption, foreign invasion, etc.
The idea is that it would only be used in the most extreme of scenarios that affect the country as a whole.
Comment · 8 years ago
Upvoting is not an expression of support for the content, it's a "I think this article should be seen by more people" signal.
Comment · 8 years ago
The First Amendment doesn't obligate private companies to do business with people or other businesses they don't want to be involved with.
If the U.S. government were ordering his accounts closed, you might have an argument.
Comment · 8 years ago
I was referring to the failure of whatever mechanism would be used to cancel an alert that appears post-fall.
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