In the other HN discussions, people have talked about how this type of Data Sharing has been known about in our community for years.
Hell, I've seen product demos from 2012 that showed big players offering private FB/Twitter post analytics for targeting ads/marketing. It's been going on for a long time.
So that does raise this serious concern: why are we making such a big deal of it now? One whistle blower?
A hundred other people groups discovered the continents we call The Americas long before Columbus. His timing was right to gain the popularity he did.
So it could be coincidence, or it could be intentional. That 2nd thing should be thought of as a crazy conspiracy theory. Our media/TV is tightly manipulated and controlled. I mean if anything, this leak should make that more obvious than anything! So it's not so far out there as you might think.
> this type of Data Sharing has been known about in our community for years.
> why are we making such a big deal of it now? One whistle blower?
The "we" who are making a "big deal of it now" is not the HN community.
> Our media/TV is tightly manipulated and controlled. I mean if anything, this leak should make that more obvious than anything! So it's not so far out there as you might think.
It is far out if you have a limited view of current events and how the world works. Zuckerberg is already eating shit from all sides in America, including questioning by Sen. Wyden [0]. So who are these "unknown actors" who have the power to control not just the U.S. Senate, but a totally separate governmental body? And why the hell would these "unknown actors" risk organizing that kind of conspiracy when it is completely unneeded? Don't you think that pulling strings at that level has some costs and baggage associated with it? But "unknown actors" are willing to risk it to add a little more bad PR to someone who is not even yet near the initial stages of a candidacy?
Why is that all more reasonable than the boring explanation that: most people don't know the details about Facebook's data hoarding/sharing, and now that high-profile investigations have come to light, people are more inclined to be pissed than complacent? That's how politics and public outrage work. It hasn't even been a week since another U.S. Senator proposed legislation and wrote a similarly angry letter to United Airlines because a dumbass flight attendant caused a puppy to die [1]. Where's the conspiracy behind that?
