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In reply to the discussion: Adios Huffington Post [View all]okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)users-information industrial complex. I'm totally opposed to anyone forcing you to link to Facebook. It also forces Facebook popularity. I don't know what the back room deal with Facebook is, but i'm sure it's pro-business and anti-user. Mark Zuckerberg is a millineal-con, or the youngest Koch brother. I'm just as worried about the Google/Facebook/Yahoo info gathering as I am about the NSA. The NSA can purchase all the info they want about us, so what's the point of having privacy laws that protect us from them without the same laws extending to companies like Google and Facebook? Maybe that's why Google joined ALEC recently? I also think that's why there's so much pushback from Internet companies regarding NSA requests. I don't think for a second Google is worried about our privacy, it's that they're worried privacy laws will affect them and they're trying to get out in front of it. The old....see, we care about your privacy. Be mad at the NSA and not us....trick. I'm not buying. Being forced to link accounts to Facebook or Google is about nothing more than info consolidation and profit.