Jul. 11th, 2018

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Франклин Фоер продолжает свою критику технических монополий вроде Гугла и Фейсбука, противопоставляя их культуре дух "рынка идей" Джона Милтона.

Технократы склонны считать, что все общественные проблемы имеют, подобно инженерным задачам, единственное оптимальное решение. Неудивительно, что созданные ими платформы выхолащивают возможность диалога и дискуссии, в которых можно было рассматривать трудные вопросы с разных сторон и рождать истину в споре.

Facebook has made it possible to live in a filter bubble, where we don’t have to contend with the unpleasantness of confronting opinions we dislike—and where there’s a mute button to effortlessly quiet voices we would rather not hear. Mark Zuckerberg’s dream, the dream he continues to profess, even after all of the controversy, is the dream of global community—the idea of a global network that transforms the planet into a place of understanding. As we join Zuckerberg’s community, he fantasizes that the sense of connection will cause our differences to melt away—like a digital version of the old Coca Cola commercial, or, as I argue in my book, World Without Mind, a revival of the ’60s counterculture and the vision of life on a commune.
Yet the Miltonic search for truth and knowledge is all about friction, about the human growth that comes with the complications of human existence. Argument is the most important form of friction, and the distilled essence of democracy. Our public sphere has been a place of profound discomfort, because “that which purified us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.” Preservation of democratic society means that there is no escaping the trial, no fleeing from the discomfort.
In other words, preservation of democracy requires preserving this ecosystem of ideas that has miraculously persisted with us since the 17th century.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/the-death-of-the-public-square/564506/



Mежду тем Фейсбук преследуют другие проблемы. Британское агентство ICO оштрафовала компанию за нарушение закона о приватности частных данных при предоставлении данных Cambridge Analytica. Сумма штрафа для Фейсбука смешная, но на этом их легальные проблемы вряд ли закончатся.

Facebook is to be fined £500,000, the maximum amount possible, for its part in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the information commissioner has announced.
The fine is for two breaches of the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) concluded that Facebook failed to safeguard its users’ information and that it failed to be transparent about how that data was harvested by others.
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
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“Facebook has failed to provide the kind of protections they are required to under the Data Protection Act,” said Elizabeth Denham, the information commissioner. “Fines and prosecutions punish the bad actors, but my real goal is to effect change and restore trust and confidence in our democratic system.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/11/facebook-fined-for-data-breaches-in-cambridge-analytica-scandal




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