"Pandering...", he says.
Hot tip: Facebook cares a *lot* about privacy and community safety. Aside from anything else: reputational damage in that space - eg: #CambridgeAnalytica - is bad for the pursuit of money-grubbing capitalism.
The history of the FB Onion site is explained here: lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-…
The rationale of the FB Onion site is explained here:
facebook.com/notes/facebook…
And the means by which we got there, is roundly explained here: facebook.com/notes/alec-muf…
It's 2020, the world is plagued by disease and oppression, and however regrettable it is that a tiny number of people use @torproject and other privacy tools (VPNs? @signalapp? other?) to do bad things, the truth of the matter is that there are millions of people who *need* such.
Yes @lorenzofb wrote this, and yes the guy is atrocious, but the response to the general problem of "some people do obscenely bad things" cannot be for us to demand that "Facebook should block people who want privacy and integrity when communicating".
Aside from anything else, there is equally the argument that:
"The Web/Internet as a whole, acts as a force-amplifier for abusive acts! We should tear down the whole thing, not just 'social networking'!"
...and someone is probably saying that in a "Year Zero" kind of way.
But if we did tear down the internet, or at least tear down social media, we would stop the sharing of violent videos which document police maiming and brutality, just as much as we stop the videos of crazed racists performing horrific mass shootings.
People: which acts of violence do you want to see? Is it OK to share pictures of someone getting his eyeball shot out?
If, in future, you want a 400+ tweet megathread of illegal blood, violence, maiming & destruction, here you go - and it's not even on the "darkweb", it's on Twitter where even little children can look at it.
And I feel overall that's *good* for society.
Monsters really do exist, and they look just like people.
The tools that "enable" a small number of monsters are also those which enable the world to operate "at scale", and permit a vast number of non-monster people to be safer and more able… but almost nobody speaks for them.
So if you want to glibly dismiss a million people as "17", go ahead, but you're wrong:
And - I believe, personal opinion - equally wrong are any other people who demand censorship (rather than, say, Twitter's "labelling" of content that calls for violence) of platform-level technologies like (also) Google, Facebook, Cloudflare, ...
Because the actual monsters are at the end of the (end-to-end encrypted) network connection, and it's *those* which we need to know about, so that we may protest and combat.
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