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0 pointslatexr8y ago0 comments

Focusing on Facebook gives the benefit of focus. Techies have been warning people for years about tracking on the internet, but “tracking on the internet” is a vague premisse.

It’s by bringing the actions of popular bad actors to light that we’ll raise awareness to the rest. People need something tangible that they see is affecting them, and Facebook’s scandal is just that.

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pessimizer8y ago· 1 in thread

> It’s by bringing the actions of popular bad actors to light that we’ll raise awareness to the rest.

What usually happens is that the one "bad actor" gets turned into a "bad apple," convincingly repents, is renamed, or is dismantles, other companies have a quiet period during the media frenzy to avoid being the next focus, then continue with impunity.

If focusing on facebook brings legislative changes, then good. If focusing on facebook just punishes facebook, who cares?

latexrOP8y ago

> If focusing on facebook just punishes facebook, who cares?

Everyone. Punishing one single bad actor (and one of the biggest, at that) is indisputably better than punishing zero. By having one answer by the consequences of their actions, the others see the same can happen to them.

The math is simple. A bunch of little people against multiple tech giants. There’s no way the people have a chance to deal with all the giants at once. One at a time, maybe.

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