What I believe should be legal and what I believe should be done (by decent people) are different questions.
Right wing and conspiracy oriented, but not racist, no.
Which is a nonsense principle. Private companies should be either allowed to discriminate on whatever grounds they like or forced to treat all equally.
I'm unsure of what the exact legal status is federally and per state (although I've heard claims that social media giants represent de facto public forums and thus are subject to some free expression requirements), I'm…
Its pretty insane that public businesses are forbidden from discrimination on most grounds (political views, religious views, etc) of who it employs, or who can enter their business, but its perfectly fine for FB,…
FIFA has been corrupt for decades. Although supposedly its been cleaned up since Blatter was removed, it is doubtful the institutional corruption has been eliminated completely. The only question is how pervasive it is.
If I told you a short story and then informed you it was copyrighted by me and you were morally forbidden from repeating said story, but you still repeated it, are you now a sociopath? What a ridiculous stretch of…
I suspect there's also a fragmentation effect going on -- users are moving to WhatsApp for messaging, and Instagram for the social validation part. Fortunately for Facebook they own both.
Anecdotally, this year and last is the first I've noticed where a lot of my friends have stopped using it altogether, and the ones who do basically never post any updates whatsoever or otherwise interact with it. One…
What I believe should be legal and what I believe should be done (by decent people) are different questions.
Right wing and conspiracy oriented, but not racist, no.
Which is a nonsense principle. Private companies should be either allowed to discriminate on whatever grounds they like or forced to treat all equally.
I'm unsure of what the exact legal status is federally and per state (although I've heard claims that social media giants represent de facto public forums and thus are subject to some free expression requirements), I'm…
Its pretty insane that public businesses are forbidden from discrimination on most grounds (political views, religious views, etc) of who it employs, or who can enter their business, but its perfectly fine for FB,…
FIFA has been corrupt for decades. Although supposedly its been cleaned up since Blatter was removed, it is doubtful the institutional corruption has been eliminated completely. The only question is how pervasive it is.
If I told you a short story and then informed you it was copyrighted by me and you were morally forbidden from repeating said story, but you still repeated it, are you now a sociopath? What a ridiculous stretch of…
I suspect there's also a fragmentation effect going on -- users are moving to WhatsApp for messaging, and Instagram for the social validation part. Fortunately for Facebook they own both.
Anecdotally, this year and last is the first I've noticed where a lot of my friends have stopped using it altogether, and the ones who do basically never post any updates whatsoever or otherwise interact with it. One…