Not sure why you keep insisting I'm not talking about messenger when every post I have made calls it out by name, and then call me dishonest? I imagine you have some fundamental misunderstanding here but I'm not sure what it is. You do realize that messenger is not an E2E platform an Facebook has access to all your messages, can analyze them as they are sent, can go back and query against them, and often supplies that data to LEOs?

Anyway, if you're intent on reading what you want instead of what has been written, I don't feel obligated to change your mind. Maybe Dave needs a V1.1 to fix a few glitches but I've got my own projects.

You somehow managed to completely, and I mean "100%" doesn't adequately describe it, miss the point. Do you by chance work for Facebook? I'm embarrassed on your behalf.

Don't be daft. They're reading all of your content in as close to real time as is possible They don't just stop allowing people to post and send messages on Sunday so they have to catch up. This includes messages, which is why I specifically said messages, which are already read by their system in near real time. You even quoted the word messages but for whatever reason ignored it?

Look at the system they use to read your posts and messages to determine what ads they send you or which of your content needs to be fact checked, which already exists and is already running full force and in real time on the platform. Take the known cases which per the article makes up the majority of FBI statistics, analyze the messages that are not E2E encrypted (thanks, FB) and are easily queried, and use that data to train a new model. That would be a good start, beyond my earlier suggestion of spamming people with anti-victim messaging, and relies on tools and data they already have.

I wonder why the hell that company thought they deserved to have that information to begin with. This idea that every business you interact with needs to know all about you is absurd. Sell me your product, don't try to make me your product.

FB already monitors their messaging system, in more or less exactly the way you suggest.. Just not being used for stopping sex trafficking or catching pedos. Remember, FB Messenger is not E2E encrypted, and it maintains a permanent history of your messages, conveniently stored in a database for a variety of use cases.

Turns out top down authoritative control over the public is hard. Maybe they should try letting people do their thing and worry about law breaking instead of wrongthink instead?

I don't see how you bring up free speech in a discussion about Facebook, one of the largest abusers of "but muh private business" when it comes to regulating what people are allowed to say. Facebook should continue doing that Facebook does with regard to free speech, aka ignore it as a concept.

But here's a suggestion.. For one day a week, instead of forcing everyone to scroll past a propaganda post about vaccines, force them to scroll past a propaganda post about avoiding predators. Surely it won't be any less of a waste of bytes than what they're doing now... And who cares if people who aren't kids see them, they clearly don't mind people who are vaccinated seeing the somehow both unsung yet constantly sung healthcare workers keeping us alive.

Policies aren't enough. Facebook is moving millions of dollars around fact checking satire sites and memes, but can't seem to slow down the flood of pedos. Their response is a sad, sick joke. FBI stats recently showed that FB Messenger was the most used platform for CP as well. But by all means, keep telling me that Fauci doesn't actually recommend wearing a mask over your eyes to keep from seeing his leaked emails and just point out that you have a worthless policy against something that's illegal anyway.

Maybe you've heard of AMD and Linux.

Anyway, imagine trying to get people excited about an Intel laptop in 2021. And being able to choose between windows home or pro is a feature?

I am helping, I pay them every month. This isn't open source, making a useful product isn't the burden of the customer. With that said, I up/down vote things I watch almost all the time and it still gets it laughably wrong.

But Netflix recommendations are almost always for stuff I don't want to see. Randomly selecting something from that list is not going to do me any favors, it'll just pop up the latest garbage juoice they've squeezed out.

They are linked on purpose as those concepts have been adopted and weaponized by partisan actors around the world... And this organization stands in stark contrast to the original ideals of free software which intend to empower every person in every place, not just the people you like in the places you like. I am really bothered by the level of activism found in software these days, often by folks who's only contribution is that activism.

I obviously won't be working on any software using a license that makes a moral judgement on the user. I've been quite happy with GPL2 and MIT and those licenses reflect my ideals and expectations adequately.

And once again, free software > open source software.

Skype for business was Skype in name only. It was a re-branding of their Lync product they felt was necessary after the piles of cash they spent buying Skype.