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by nathan_long
2754 days ago
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> There's nothing that Facebook did here than any other company, in tech or otherwise, wouldn't have done. This isn't true. Lots of companies wouldn't steal users' call logs - eg, Mozilla, Signal, and plenty of boring, normal ones who make TODO list apps or whatever. It also isn't relevant. See how that argument flies in criminal court. "Anybody else would have stolen that car." What we see here (again) is that FB does nasty things and it's in the public interest to stop them - along with "any other company" who does the same things. |
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All this anger over Facebook is ridiculous.[1] Now, if you want to talk about Android and Google's decision to make it more difficult to not only control but to know what data apps (especially theirs!) will take, that's a different matter....
[1] Especially from geeks, and particularly geeks from the 1990s and earlier when we were told that unless we promoted non-centralized publication models that we'd see the very constellation of centralized, user-antagonistic, profiteering services we now have. Whenever someone says, "but why would you want to host your own e-mail/web/chat server, my head wants to explode." It's always "why would you" (or "why would you, it'll never be as good as GMail/Facebook/Twitter/etc"; never, "maybe I should promote and help work on projects that make it easier".