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RE: Why STEEM NEEDS To Promote Decentralization: Facebook Breached!!!
From Edward Snowden:
Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as "surveillance companies." Their rebranding as "social media" is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense.
Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. They are not victims. They are accomplices.
From me:
I sure hope Steemit ruins Facebook.
You could make the same argument with the Steem platform.
If surveillance is the problem then the Steem blockchain makes surveillance easier and cheaper, its all there in the clear no need to hack or bribe a centralized party, and you get all the financial transactions as a bonus.
You want to advertise a product or service? Just pay a bot or setup one your self.
You want to manipulate the public? Just start a SMT and get an army of humans and bots working for your interests.
So the rebranding could go from "surveillance companies" to
"social media" to "decentralized blockchain".
Only time will tell if we are actually creating a bigger monster than Facebook.
That is a good point. The issue I see with Facebook is that it is a “surveillance company” by design. It was developed for data mining. Steemit is transparent and can be mined for surveillance, but I don’t think that was the purpose for its development so it is not as “user friendly” to data miners as Facebook.
The other point is that while some Steemians use this as another Facebook and post everything about themselves, many more remain hidden from view and don’t reveal personal information while commenting and posting. Therefore profile mining does not easily produce specific results.
I dont think "our dear" Zuck, could foresee how power hungry parties would use his platform to keep and grow their powers, when it was still a small community.
Steem is still a small fish in the surveillance ocean with a 800k accounts, and much less active human accounts.
You are not forced to reveal you identity on Steem, but just like with Facebook apps, Steem apps collect more than just the blockchain.
Looking at a random Busy.org post the scripts attached to each post reveal many big brothers are still following and data mining you.
SteemConnect now need more permissions from users and posting key is no longer enough. Each click on Steemit is mined by Google.
I worry that with the Steem token the development of a bigger surveillance platform is now outsourced on its users. The dollar sign on each post makes people blind.
I really hope im wrong.
I guess the opinion is that as long as you post something, anywhere, the content will be mined.
At least here there is compensation. Is it worth it, and how much you reveal becomes a personal choice.
That the content is there in the public is fine, we all know and agree its written on the blockchain.
But that every movement on the Steemit and the other front ends is shared with so many third parties i think few understand, or even care.
Here is a good read:
https://steemit.com/privacy.html
How much is your privacy worth?
Thank you for that link. I read it and most of it I already assumed was done. It seems benign enough, but maybe I am missing some true traps hidden behind the language. What do you find troubling in it?