hi everyone, accidentally made something terrible again, sorry
as it turns out when you find as many user created skeleton models as possible on the steam workshop and rig them all up at the same time it does result in an accurate and complete human skeleton
Damian Collins chairs the UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and
Sport select committee; it was he who ordered the Parliamentary Serjeant
at Arms to drag a visiting US tech executive named Ted Kramer out of his hotel
to surrender his laptop to Parliament so they could see the internal
Facebook documents that a US federal judge had ordered sealed.
Kramer is CEO of Six4Three, a creepy US startup whose Facebook app
helped you find pictures of your friends in bikinis; when the app was
neutered by a change to Facebook’s API, Six4Three sued Facebook and in
the course of pre-trial discovery, they were given extensive internal
documents from Facebook, which the judge in the case had ordered sealed.
Somehow, Collins got wind of the fact that Kramer, his laptop, and the
documents were all in London, and – having been spurned by Mark
Zuckerberg, who repeatedly refused demands to appear in Parliament –
saw his change.
Now, Collins has dumped a 250 page file, hosted on Parliament’s servers, which includes the documents from Kramer’s laptop and Collins’s summary.
The release comes despite a plea from Facebook to respect the US court order and not publish the documents.
The documents are incredibly damning. They show Facebookers at
the highest level – up to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg
– conspiring to trick Android users about how much data was being
gathered by an update to the Facebook app; to give certain companies
“whitelisted” access to user data beyond the access the company had
disclosed to its users; to explicitly productize “friends” data (that
is, to allow the trick Cambridge Analytica pulled, when getting a user
to grant permission to their own data also allowed a company to access
their friends’ data); to use the Onavo battery-monitor app to covertly
gather data on which other apps users had installed; and
anti-competitive targeting of partners’ apps.
Collins tweeted:
“I believe there is considerable public interest in releasing these
documents. They raise important questions about how Facebook treats
users data, their policies for working with app developers, and how they
exercise their dominant position in the social media market.”
This isn’t just one smoking gun, it’s hundreds of them. This is Facebook’s worst nightmare.
“This is facebook’s worst nightmare.” Yeah because extremely damning leaked documents have really caused people trouble over the years. People really care and there are consequences for the persons whose actions were exposed!
don’t join mastodon. the lax nature of regulations makes it an extremely popular platform for maps and pedophiles.
there are always alternatives to tumblr but mastodon is Not a trustworthy or good one
This is based on a drastic misunderstanding of what Mastodon is. It’s not a social media site like tumblr – it’s open-source code that allows anyone to create a social media site, which can then interact with other sites using that code. To say Mastodon has “lax regulations” is really misleading, because Mastodon itself has no regulations, it only has tools for moderators to regulate their own instances
Mastodon “allows” pedophiles in the same way that email “allows” identity theft scams. No, “email” doesn’t put a stop to identity theft, but “email” is just a set of protocols for sending messages – it’d be absurd to expect it to
Most Mastodon instances (including mastodon.social, the largest and oldest) do more to keep pedophiles off their platform than tumblr ever has, by having strict rules against it, banning any instances that don’t have strict rules against it, and actively moderating to enforce those rules. At that point it’s as if the pedophiles are on a different website entirely – because they literally are on a different domain
As someone who actually uses it, I can confirm that I’ve never had or even heard of a run-in with pedophiles. Admins know the instances that allow it and quickly block and spread the word about any new ones that pop up. Again, it’s been more of an issue for me on tumblr than it’s ever been on masto
Please reblog this. People love spreading this rumor without knowing what they’re talking about, and it’s driving people away from non-corporate, community-controlled, secure open-source social media. And that’s a real big shame
Monsters and Stuff 