Commercial Surveillance, who is going to remain part of the problem?

Walter Dnes waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Sat Jan 28 06:45:55 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 04:46:00PM -0500, Molly Tournquist wrote

> It could be said to focus on how facebook persistantly underhandedly
> prods you in certain directions, requiring you to go out of your way
> not to comply. Perhaps the article bluntly gets into things which
> people have habits for blocking out of attention. On top of general
> automatic defensiveness against criticisms of something people are
> hooked on like that.

  The thing about Facebook is that it has gradually changed its
privacy settings for the worse.  If Zuckerberg had start Facebook in its
current wide-open configuration, it would never have taken off.
Instead, Facebook started off as a private web-board, got "network
effect", hooked users, and then started turning down privacy.  See
http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy for a graphic illustration of how
things have changed.

  Rather than me telling you what I think of Facebook users, I suggest
looking at what Mark Zuckerberg thinks of Facebook users.  Let's just
say it's NSFW (Not Safe For Work).  See...
http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims-wont-help-facebooks-privacy-problems-2010-5

  For those of you wanting to block Facebook at home (so the "Like"
buttons don't track you) or at work (to restore productivity), mp
iptables rules currently block...

66.220.144.0/20 66.220.144.0 - 66.220.159.255
69.63.176.0/20 69.63.176.0 - 69.63.191.255
69.171.224.0/19 69.171.224.0 - 69.171.255.255
74.119.76.0/22 74.119.76.0 - 74.119.79.255
173.252.64.0/18 173.252.64.0 - 173.252.127.255
204.15.20.0/22 204.15.20.0 - 204.15.23.255

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