UK MPs' disinformation sub-committee is sure to bring Facebook chief to heel (in Opposites Land) UK Parliament's digital committee, keen to ride its post-Facebook probe publicity wave, has launched a sub-committee on disinformation to dig into the issues raised during its high-profile report. zuckerberg Sorry, Mr Zuckerberg isn't in London that day. Or that one. Nope. I'd give up if I were you READ MORE The House of …
> Anyway now we know that when needed, FB can actually delete posts for ever....
Only if you name is Mark Zuckerberg:
Businessinsider: ‘Some old Facebook posts by CEO Mark Zuckerberg have vanished, and the company says it "mistakenly deleted" them.
The disappearances include posts about key moments in the company's history, like the acquisition of Instagram in 2012.
"A few years ago some of Mark's posts were mistakenly deleted due to technical errors," a spokesperson said in a statement.
Facebook won't restore the posts, saying the work to do so would be "extensive" and not guaranteed to work.
Facebook has also made changes to the way it saves its archives of previous corporate announcements and blog posts that make it that much harder to parse the company's historical records.’
When the committee finds some (democracy) I hope they publish it's whereabouts, I'd like to go and have a look to see what all the fuss is about.
Regarding the Silly Zucker's requests for regulation and dumping the ball back in the laps of governments, he should be careful about what he wishes for. Faecebook could be regulated back into pre-social times.
PR exercises often backfire.
It's the old "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" - he knows regulation will come, and thereby he has to attempt to steer them in a direction which is still advantageous to his business.
But really, it's like involving old Enron/Lehman executives in writing rules for the financial market, or involving mafia into writing laws to fight organized crime.... oh wait - there's a possibility it's happening....
"Faecebook could be regulated back into pre-social times."
No they couldn't, that isn't how our political systems work today.
Buying of the political process is not a PR exercise. It is part of a well established political and business model that has been one of the most powerful drivers of government and their decisions since at least the 1980's.
A closer look at regulations, like environmental regulations, will show that regs are not about protecting citizens (or the environment) as they may have once been.
Of course every large business would prefer no regulation or enforcement but eventually they will be called to task or made responsible with a PR disaster or in the case of the environment made to pay for environmental damages.
When that happens the industry or business itself calls for regulation.
Regulation limits responsibility and liability and passes at least some of that, often all of that, onto government and the regulatory agencies.
Take a look at todays regulatory agencies and the people paid by them. You will find few regular John and (insert gender pronoun of your choice here) Q Public representing the wishes of average citizens.
Regulatory industries have a disproportionate number of people with close ties to the industry being regulated. They claim you need to be from the industry being enforced to understand regulations.
That is an easy to counter claim that our media almost never makes. We do not need criminals to be the police doing the enforcing or rule making.
A look at the flow of people to and from positions of influence in making and enforcing regulations will show why so many industries are so keen on regulation.
Regulation limits their liability and helps ensure lack of competition and profits, even for industries that wouldn't exist at all if citizens had a controlling say in government.
I wonder why they are fighting it anyway there will be no PR win even if they succeed at appeal and £500K doesn't even count as a flea bite to a company that size.
The only 2 reasons I can think of for it are:
A: Some legal company is just cashing in on a rich dumb client for as much as possible.
B: They feel it sets some kind of precedent that they don't want on the books for when their inevitable next disaster happens.
Does anyone have any better ideas?
If John Bolton is anything to go by, even the US still takes the UK seriously.
“President Trump remains very eager to cut a bilateral trade deal with an independent Britain. It’s what the people voted for in 2016, and when they get out, whether it’s now, April 12 or later, we’ll be standing right there waiting for them,"
So there's a cuddly deal waiting for the UK's agriculture to be dominated by Monsanto et al and the Pound to be merged with the dollar to take advantage of all the juicy financial services that pass through London on the way to Panama.
“The rules governing the Internet allowed a generation of entrepreneurs to build services that changed the world and created a lot of value in people’s lives. It’s time to update these rules to define clear responsibilities for people, companies and governments going forward.”
Wha' ?
“The rules governing the Internet allowed a generation of entrepreneurs to build services that changed the world and created a lot of value in people’s lives. It’s time to update these rules to define clear responsibilities for people, companies and governments going forward.”
It was mostly because there were no 'rules governing the internet' that failed to disallow a load of some good some bad ideas.
'Updating' and defining clear rules will ensure much fewer new disruptive ideas fruiting.
The Internet has had it's wild west days, but now, barring some new tech to change the ground, the territory has mostly been decided and the sheriffs are on patrol and cavalry is out shooting natives.
“The rules governing the Internet allowed a generation of entrepreneurs to build services that changed the world and created a lot of value in people’s lives. It’s time to update these rules to define clear responsibilities for people, companies and governments going forward.”
Let's be honest and change this to read "created a lot of corporate value from people’s lives"
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