{"id":32674,"date":"2018-03-22T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32674"},"modified":"2018-03-22T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:56:13","slug":"facebook-six-degrees-of-giant-squid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32674","title":{"rendered":"Facebook: Six Degrees of Giant Squid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nHildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) German artist, philosopher, composer, mystic Cosmic Tree<\/b><\/center>All of a sudden, politicians in the EU, UK, and USA all want to talk to Mark Zuckerberg. That\u2019s a bad enough sign all by itself. It means they all either have been asleep, complicit, or they\u2019re not very bright. The media tries to convince us the Facebook \u2018scandal\u2019 is about Trump, Russia (yawn..) and elections. It\u2019s not. Not even close.<\/p>\n

If Zuckerberg ever shows up for any of these meetings with \u2018worried\u2019 politicians, he\u2019ll come with a cabal of lawyers in tow, and they\u2019ll put the blame on anyone but Facebook and say the company was tricked by devious parties who didn\u2019t live up to their legal agreements.<\/p>\n

After that, the argument won\u2019t be whether Facebook broke any laws for allowing data breaches, but whether their data use policy itself is, and always was, illegal. Now, Facebook has been around for a few years, with their policies, and nobody ever raised their voices. Not really, that is.<\/p>\n

And then it\u2019ll all fizzle out, amid some additional grandstanding from all involved, face-saving galore, and more blame for Trump and Russia.<\/p>\n

The new European Parliament chief Antonio Tajani said yesterday: \u201cWe\u2019ve invited Mark Zuckerberg to the European Parliament. Facebook needs to clarify before the representatives of 500 million Europeans that personal data is not being used to manipulate democracy.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

That\u2019s all you need to know, really. Personal data can be used to manipulate anything as long as it\u2019s not democracy. Or at least democracy as the Brussels elite choose to define it.<\/p>\n

First: this is not about Cambridge Analytica, it\u2019s about Facebook. Or rather, it\u2019s about the entire social media and search industry, as well as its connections to the intelligence community. Don\u2019t ever again see Google or Facebook as not being part of that.<\/p>\n

What Facebook enabled Cambridge Analytica to do, it will do ten times bigger itself. And it sells licences to do it to probably thousands of other \u2018developers\u2019. The CIA and NSA may have unlimited powers, but prior to Alphabet and Facebook, they never had the databases. They do now, and they\u2019re using them. \u2018Manipulate democracy\u2019? What democracy?<\/p>\n

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