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Thread: 'What's Facebook?', Elon Musk Asks, As He Deletes SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages

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    'What's Facebook?', Elon Musk Asks, As He Deletes SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages

    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/0...facebook-pages

    It is unlikely that Facebook will see a significant drop in its mammoth userbase following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. But on Friday, the #DeleteFacebook campaign, which is seeing an increasingly growing number of people call it quits on the world's largest social network, found its biggest backer: Elon Musk. Responding to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton's "#DeleteFacebook" tweet, Musk asked "What's Facebook?" That was the beginning of a tweetstorm, which saw journalists asking Musk why his companies -- SpaceX and Tesla -- maintained their Facebook pages. Shouldn't Musk, they asked, delete them? Musk agreed. As of this writing, the official Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla, both of which had more than two million followers, are nowhere to be found. The Facebook page of SolarCity is gone too, if you were wondering.

    The move comes months after Musk said Zuckerberg's understanding of AI was limited.
    1776 > 1984

    The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an
    Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.

    The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide

    Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled

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    Our central bank is not privately owned.



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    Is facebook going to be history in coming months/years like myspace, AOL etc?





    https://twitter.com/hashtag/deletefacebook



    Even Facebook Former Insiders Are Turning Against the Company With #DeleteFacebook

    This public relations catastrophe is epic and years in the making.

    By Erik Sherman

    Facebook has hit a new company high -- which means a low -- in an ongoing PR crisis. Yesterday afternoon, Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp -- Facebook bought them for $19 billion -- suggested that people delete Facebook from their phones and computers, using the hashtag, #DeleteFacebook, because of privacy issues. Hardly what CEO Mark Zuckerberg would want to hear.

    The criticism is harsh and not isolated. An investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over the company's data-sharing policies is reportedly in the works. Facebook's chief security officer effectively said that the company can't police users because it's too large -- not at all reassuring from a company that has this kind of access to massive amounts of personal data. And a former Facebook vp says the company is 'destroying how society works'.

    https://www.inc.com/erik-sherman/eve...efacebook.html

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    Meh... so what? Those people will load up on to another platform, which will go bad, and so on and so forth.

    What is needed is a true P2P messenger sort of deal such that nobody is able to delete or censor other users, save in those channels over which they have control such as their personal pages and groups they've established.

    We have the technology. We could make it happen.

    Perhaps I should start this.... call it... I dunno... facenode.com? No... facenode.org. That's the ticket!
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    There is only one correct way: freedom. All other solutions are non-solutions.

    It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.

    Our words make us the ghosts that we are.

    Convincing the world he didn't exist was the Devil's second greatest trick; the first was convincing us that God didn't exist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by osan View Post
    Meh... so what? Those people will load up on to another platform, which will go bad, and so on and so forth.

    What is needed is a true P2P messenger sort of deal such that nobody is able to delete or censor other users, save in those channels over which they have control such as their personal pages and groups they've established.

    We have the technology. We could make it happen.

    Perhaps I should start this.... call it... I dunno... facenode.com? No... facenode.org. That's the ticket!
    Osanbook
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    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Call it what it is... Fedbook.

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    Quote Originally Posted by osan View Post
    Meh... so what? Those people will load up on to another platform, which will go bad, and so on and so forth.

    What is needed is a true P2P messenger sort of deal such that nobody is able to delete or censor other users, save in those channels over which they have control such as their personal pages and groups they've established.

    We have the technology. We could make it happen.

    Perhaps I should start this.... call it... I dunno... facenode.com? No... facenode.org. That's the ticket!
    Two alternatives:

    #1 - Use his own website, on his own servers
    #2 - Ron Paul Forums!

    He may have a few more people check him out on his own website than on the latter tho...
    1776 > 1984

    The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an
    Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.

    The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide

    Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled

    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Our central bank is not privately owned.



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