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Facebook devolves into dark web of anonymous hate speech

Thu, 08/26/2010 - 11:26 — Dave Culver
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  • Facebook has, for reasons you'll soon see, brought out the worst in many people, devolving into a tangled web of anonymous hate speech directed to anything and everything within reach.
  • How Facebook became a hate engine
  • How Facebook Betrayed Users and Undermined Online Privacy
  • Goodbye, Blog

Mike Adams, NaturalNews.com

When broadcast television was first invented in the first half of the 20th century, it was quickly heralded as a technological breakthrough that would inspire, educate and uplift human civilization. Educational programs and useful knowledge could be cheaply and efficiently broadcast to people everywhere, it was thought. The FCC even required television stations to run news programming without commercials as a trade-off for being granted broadcast space in the electromagnetic spectrum. This TV news, it was thought, was the broadcast station's obligation to the betterment of society.

Those were the humble and well-intentioned beginnings of television, a game-changing "disruptive" technology that we now know has actually dumbed-down our population while becoming a cesspool for manipulative corporate advertising and idiotic entertainment. Far from enlightening human civilization, television has arguably enslaved it, seductively luring the population into a downward spiral of runaway consumerism, debt, disease, and mainstream stupidity.

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How Facebook Betrayed Users and Undermined Online Privacy, Allan Badiner, AlterNet

  • Viable alternatives (to Facebook) are already springing up. A new network has been touted in the media that allows users to fully control the information they share by setting up their own personal servers, called “seeds.” Raphael Sofaer, co-founder of Diaspora<http://joindiaspora.com/>, says that centralized networks like Facebook are not necessary. “In our real lives, we talk to each other,” he said. “We don’t need to hand our messages to a hub.”
  • Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

Write Congress Through Facebook! Congress.org

  • You can now e-mail your lawmakers using Facebook.
  • Learn more about how your advocacy group can get a similar tool.

Goodbye, Blog, Alan Jacobs, Christianity Today

  • The friend of information but the enemy of thought.
  • Facebook devolves into dark web of anonymous hate speech


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