Comment by JumpCrisscross
7 years ago
Facebook is powerful and insular. Taking it down requires extraordinary organisation. Outrage is helpful in that respect.
Agreement is better than disagreement. Would I prefer we had agreement earlier? Yes. Is agreement today better than agreement tomorrow? Absolutely.
Now that we have a constituency, the important thing is to mobilise. The past is in the past. Our job, in the present, is to protect the future.
Call for a facebook user strike on May 1st.
#May1FBstrike
https://medium.com/@oddbert2000/call-for-a-facebook-users-st...
Excellent - they'll be able to offer advertised another demographic category "People who are vocally privacy conscious, but who aren't prepared to do anything about preserving it if it means they don't get to play Farmville."
Antivirus vendors and shitty vpn services will be all over that.
Why not just every day? Only use it as much as absolutely necessary (to communicate with people you wouldn't be able to reach otherwise) and use competitors instead. Even using FB owned companies (e.g. Whatsapp) would help. While FB still gets some data, they don't get contents (unlike FB messenger all chats are end-to-end encrypted) and most importantly no ad revenues. And lower revenues is what would truly change Facebook's policies.
what is the point?
You think people could organize better than against Trump ? seems unlikely
Trump has many supporters(not me). I don't think any facebook users particularly like facebook, it's just where "everyone" is.
Exactly this.
Who even supports FB?
The media? No, they hate them because they took all their ad revenue.
Republicans? No, they hate them for the censorship controversy that happened a year or so ago, and because it is full of ultra left wing silicon Valley types.
Democrats? No, they hate them for the whole Cambridge analytica, Russian data thing.
Facebook has made a lot of enemies, and there really isn't any sort of constituency that SUPPORTS them.
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> better than against Trump?
It is more effective to organise for a cause than against a politician. Presidents are intentionally difficult to remove. The bar for promoting action against Facebook is lower than for prompting action against the President.