[governance] Facebook customer outreach on privacy policy backfires

[riaz.tayob at gmail.com]

But why frame this in democratic terms? This was customer outreach, seems to have sought endorsement rather than engage in deliberation, and is public relations... It of course is in a unique context... The quest for a profitable business model while not eroding users proclivities to "share"...on matters that are personal and also political, which makes simple analogies of talking in the public park or sanctity of the mail/post look completely different... In condition where market power can be abused in forms that are not readily captured by abuse of market dominance, as there are choices for users, and whose political/rights impact is rather novel... Asserting or accepting the absolute right of firms to do what they like is NO different to allowing the state in a similar way...
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On 12 Dec 2012, at 9:18 AM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> What is arbitrary about this, the rules were published in advance?
> Are you suggesting that even
> though less than 1% of people voted that their choice should stand?
> that hardly seems 'democratic" to me.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> McTim
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