Actually the bug 'breach' in the article is not the breach I was thinking about. It's a bad breach but it's a separate issue to me. For me the issue lies in how Facebook communicates. (Fair disclosure, it's been a long…
>>Then you need to ban gossip as well. That's precisely the thing - effective society does ban gossip. Sure, it doesn't get rid of it 100%, but it recognizes it as a harmful thing and stigmatizes it. It does not meekly…
You're right that if a friend shares personal information we would rather be kept generally private, our friend is responsible for the privacy breach. But the person they share with can also be guilty. Using a binary…
Citing one example of where cleverness was more effective than kindness falls far short of proving the statement that it is never more important to be kind than clever; you might want to tone down its sensationalist…
As they describe in the page, when you describe something, you are trying to place it within a general framework. In trying to describe a domain in an encyclopedia, it does little good to use language specific to the…
I wouldn't say that library size is only tangentially relevant. After, all, if we all had small libraries, we wouldn't be worried about them as a valuable part of our estate, would we? You're right, digital media bring…
Classic first world problem, right here... Oh no - I have so much music that a physical storage model doesn't scale - in fact, I have so. much. music. that I can't afford to own it in physical media! I can only afford…
I don't think you properly take into account some of the internet factors that actually make a higher proportion of mobbish vigilantes: 1 - Visibility, which you yourself mention. We get to see injustices that we would…
Actually the bug 'breach' in the article is not the breach I was thinking about. It's a bad breach but it's a separate issue to me. For me the issue lies in how Facebook communicates. (Fair disclosure, it's been a long…
>>Then you need to ban gossip as well. That's precisely the thing - effective society does ban gossip. Sure, it doesn't get rid of it 100%, but it recognizes it as a harmful thing and stigmatizes it. It does not meekly…
You're right that if a friend shares personal information we would rather be kept generally private, our friend is responsible for the privacy breach. But the person they share with can also be guilty. Using a binary…
Citing one example of where cleverness was more effective than kindness falls far short of proving the statement that it is never more important to be kind than clever; you might want to tone down its sensationalist…
As they describe in the page, when you describe something, you are trying to place it within a general framework. In trying to describe a domain in an encyclopedia, it does little good to use language specific to the…
I wouldn't say that library size is only tangentially relevant. After, all, if we all had small libraries, we wouldn't be worried about them as a valuable part of our estate, would we? You're right, digital media bring…
Classic first world problem, right here... Oh no - I have so much music that a physical storage model doesn't scale - in fact, I have so. much. music. that I can't afford to own it in physical media! I can only afford…
I don't think you properly take into account some of the internet factors that actually make a higher proportion of mobbish vigilantes: 1 - Visibility, which you yourself mention. We get to see injustices that we would…