This is just one of many recent Facebook decisions that may have left you with a sour taste in your mouth.The corporation unwittingly gave Donald Trump’s presidential campaign access to millions of Americans’ personal information.It ignored Russia’s attempts to sway the 2016 election, enabled ethnic and religious conflict in multiple countries, and allowed advertisers to target “Jew haters,” among other great groups of consumers.Not to mention the platform’s abundance of fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies.
Facebook has no intention of any of this happening.It only wants to bring people together.
Facebook’s desire to “connect people” is missing one crucial ingredient for effective citizenship: treating individual human beings as sacred.
To Facebook, the world is made up of relationships between people rather than individuals.
The billions of Facebook accounts belong to “users,” which are collections of data points linked to other collections of data points on a large Social Network that can be targeted and monetized by computer algorithms.
You cannot do certain things to humans with good conscience.
You can do whatever you want with data.
Is it that harmful to be just a piece of data ?
References:
https://qz.com/1342757/everything-bad-about-facebook-is-bad-for-the-same-reason/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgp8z/ok-so-facebook-is-bad-now-what