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AtheistCrusader

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6. I'm not sure corporatists (interest groups) are really pushing this.

Reply to ancianita (Original post)

Fri Oct 4, 2019, 10:48 AM

Oct 2019

Most of the corporations that run these platforms are actually on the side of user privacy, because it attracts users.

Even Apple has been 'on our side' on this, with refusing to provide recovery back doors for iPhones and other Apple products.

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Barr Pushes Facebook for Access to WhatsApp Messages [View all] ancianita Oct 2019 OP

Maybe he's just keeping tabs on Jared Maine-i-acs Oct 2019 #1

I think he's in it for the much bigger stakes of control than just Jared, though you're not wrong. ancianita Oct 2019 #2

Here's the link to Barr's letter to Zuckerberg. ancianita Oct 2019 #3

This is how Putin took over in Russia too, duforsure Oct 2019 #4

Great post. Thanks. I had only thought about it in privacy terms, but yeah, it's about Big Controls ancianita Oct 2019 #5

I can't find a source, but I remember one of the first things Republicans did after their sweep LiberalLovinLug Oct 2019 #12

I'm not sure corporatists (interest groups) are really pushing this. AtheistCrusader Oct 2019 #6

You'd be right, they're not. Silicon Valley doesn't go broke protecting privacy. Google is the Big ancianita Oct 2019 #7

Good point. AtheistCrusader Oct 2019 #8

Me, too. When they ask me for a "password" for something, I don't bother and they still let me ancianita Oct 2019 #9

Barr sees our lives as an open book and he wants the library card. JohnnyRingo Oct 2019 #10

Exactly right. Unlike with a library card, he just wants to walk in, take our open book and walk out ancianita Oct 2019 #11