Comments on: Facebook supports horrible proposed Internet bill CISPA

By: hostile_17

hostile_17 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:25:00 +0000

And how do you speak to Facebook exactly? They don’t want to hear from the hordes.

By: newbedave

newbedave — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 04:16:00 +0000

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don’t know why.

Zuck: They “trust me”

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

By: newbedave

newbedave — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 04:13:00 +0000

No more competition cha-ching It’s hard to count how many times their privacy settings and policies have changed. without informing users.

By: ponzicar

ponzicar — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:13:00 +0000

Public outrage is hard to start, and hard to keep going. They’re just going to keep throwing SOPA like bills out until one is able to pass.

By: CognitiveDissident

CognitiveDissident — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:20:00 +0000

SOPA and PIPA and ACTA and T(i)PPA
CISPA and P-NAC* and CLEAN-BREAK and PAT-ACT
GITMO and N-DAA** and OP-OIL*** and IRAQ

These are a few of my least favorite things

When the taze zaps, when the spray stings
I simply remember my least favorite things
And then I do feel real mad!

* Project for the New American Century
**National Defense Authorization Act (“enn-dahh”)
***Operation Iraqi Liberation

By: morgaen

morgaen — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:07:00 +0000

How is this irony??

By: Jeffrey Pritz

Jeffrey Pritz — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:09:00 +0000

The CISPA 28′s

H.R. 3523 – 28 Corporate Letters of Support

http://intelligence.house.gov/hr-3523-letters-support

By: Jeffrey Pritz

Jeffrey Pritz — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:05:00 +0000

It’s not easy but STOP USING THEIR PRODUCTS!!! That’s how we get out of here.

By: Cheryl Nessman

Cheryl Nessman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:51:00 +0000

Ugh, was thinking of deleting my account anyway (just don’t “get” the new timeline interface)…now it’s a done deal.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:44:00 +0000

Agreed, it’s been time for a long time to put Facebook out to pasture. I’d like to see a list of social network website alternatives that don’t support this kind of crap.

Facebook is run by a scumbag. Why give scum all your private info?

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:58:00 +0000

CISPA moves the burden of enforcement from the private company to a government entity.

Yet another government handout to corporations, at taxpayers’ expense.

The people reject it, and only two months later back it comes in a nastier incarnation, just to spite the people, it feels like. Or is this what they wanted all along? This is not going to stop, goddamit.

By: rsk

rsk — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:56:00 +0000

Spammer Mark Zuckerberg will support anything that makes him money. Doesn’t matter what it is — if he can get away with it and profit, he’ll do it. No limits of any kind. So, clearly, he has calculated that supporting CISPA better helps reach that goal than opposing CISPA. (He’s a thoroughly evil person, but he’s not stupid.)

Petition? Worthless. If you want to make the Internet a better place, close your Facebook account, blacklist their domains, and firewall out their network allocations at your network perimeter. We did just fine before Facebook came along, we’ll do just fine when it’s just a bad memory.

By: suburbanhick

suburbanhick — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:28:00 +0000

I have never had a Facebook account. Or Twitter. Or any other of those idiotic lame-excuse-for-real-communication-with-people antisocial media platforms. I keep in touch with my friends and family daily thru emails, texting, phone calls and – gee, whaddaya know – TALKING TO THEM FACE-TO-FACE. That makes me a happy dinosaur.

By: vertigo25

vertigo25 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:25:00 +0000

What I want to know is… how did we get to a place where lawmakers are petitioning corporations for their support of bills? And… more importantly… how do we get out of here?

By: vertigo25

vertigo25 — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:23:00 +0000

“Quit waving the Constitution in my face. It’s just a piece of paper!”

Seems we haven’t come all that far from those days, does it?

By: SoItBegins

SoItBegins — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:16:00 +0000

“We know… everything about you.”

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:04:00 +0000

Vague and nebulous concepts of privacy may fail to stir people up, but SOPAPIPA and the blackout was something people could latch on to, so it did create an intense buzz on Facebook a few months back.

By: neurogami

neurogami — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:53:00 +0000

People who use Facebook don’t care about privacy or else they wouldn’t be using Facebook.

By: Shashwath T.R.

Shashwath T.R. — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:49:00 +0000

I don’t even see a cha-ching opportunity here…

By: steveboyett

steveboyett — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:35:00 +0000

Which is pretty much what Facebook thinks of the notion of privacy.

By: robdobbs

robdobbs — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:24:00 +0000

My name is Robb and I’m a Facebooker. I’ve been clean now for 23 months, 10 days.

By: EH

EH — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:06:00 +0000

I would imagine more that it serves to solidify a move towards a walled garden model, just like their recent proposal to enforce quasi-trademark control over the word “book” in FB app names.

By: benher

benher — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:03:00 +0000

“What is Facebook thinking?”

They have never given a flying zuck about their users and they aren’t about to start. Why should they? They have an unprecedented userbase and are basically peaking. Making a powerplay to subdue the last of our ever eroding freedoms on the Internet by cooperating with government regulators is only part of their larger goal to ensure some sort of hegemonic control over the majority of users.

Zuck and co have never been ones to repent for their sins.

By: koko szanel

koko szanel — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:45:00 +0000

What are they thinking? Maybe that they can do it because even people like You Cory are in love with bookface and facial networks and will keep spamming sites with bookface LIKE spyware buttons no matter what.
You criticize them while at the same time making them money.

By: Drabula

Drabula — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:44:00 +0000

If I wasn’t separated by an ocean from all my friends I would have quit FB yesterday. But as it is I just don’t see alternatives for communicating. Me and my 3 best friends have a ‘private group’ on there in which we ruthlessly entertain each other from afar. Email just isn’t a substitute for the fun we have in our profane little corner of FB. But I have my limits….

By: bklynchris

bklynchris — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:44:00 +0000

I know, once they went public I screamed “Over, its over” in my best Portlandian Fred Armenson voice. Of course, I knew this the year previous when I deleted my account.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:35:00 +0000

Next step: Add http://www.facebook.com (and all the various other-named FB sites) to your ‘hosts’ (or equivalent) file so it points to the bit bucket.

See, if you click on the link on my machine, nothing happens.

By: Angryjim

Angryjim — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:33:00 +0000

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that:The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and Warrants shall not be issued, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.If any of these bills passes let’s take it to the supreme court. (Not that they are politically unbiased themselves.)

By: tyrantasaurus

tyrantasaurus — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:23:00 +0000

Luckily Facebook is the forum where anti-CISPA sentiment will be spread most thoroughly and effectively…

By: Franklin

Franklin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:14:00 +0000

Most interesting is if you post links to this petition or any other anti-CISPA links on facebook, it gives you a bold “spammy link” warning before connecting to the site. Oh, the irony…