{"id":179236,"date":"2018-04-11T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/11\/mark-zuckerbergs-apologies-today-are-not-sincere\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:39:00","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-apologies-today-are-not-sincere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/11\/mark-zuckerbergs-apologies-today-are-not-sincere\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg’s Apologies Today Are Not Sincere"},"content":{"rendered":"

We know this because he has been shedding the same crocodile tears for almost 15 years<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On 2003, one year before Facebook<\/a> was founded, a website called Facemash began nonconsensually scraping pictures of students at Harvard from the school\u2019s intranet and asking users to rate their hotness. Obviously, it caused an outcry. The website\u2019s developer quickly proffered an apology. “I hope you understand, this is not how I meant for things to go, and I apologize for any harm done as a result of my neglect to consider how quickly the site would spread and its consequences thereafter,\u201d wrote a young Mark Zuckerberg. \u201cI definitely see how my intentions could be seen in the wrong light.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>In 2004 Zuckerberg cofounded Facebook, which rapidly spread from Harvard to other universities. And in 2006 the young company blindsided its users<\/a> with the launch of News Feed, which collated and presented in one place information that people had previously had to search for piecemeal. Many users were shocked and alarmed that there was no warning and that there were no privacy controls. Zuckerberg apologized. \u201cThis was a big mistake on our part, and I’m sorry for it,\u201d he wrote on Facebook\u2019s blog. “We really messed this one up,” he said. “We did a bad job of explaining what the new features were and an even worse job of giving you control of them.”<\/span>

<\/span>Then in 2007, Facebook\u2019s Beacon advertising system, which was launched without proper controls or consent, ended up compromising user privacy by making people\u2019s purchases public. Fifty thousand Facebook users signed an e-petition titled \u201cFacebook: Stop invading my privacy.\u201d Zuckerberg responded with an apology: \u201cWe simply did a bad job with this release and I apologize for it.” He promised to improve. \u201cI’m not proud of the way we’ve handled this situation and I know we can do better,\u201d he wrote.<\/span>

<\/span>By 2008, Zuckerberg had written only four posts on Facebook\u2019s blog: Every single one of them was an apology or an attempt to explain a decision that had upset users.<\/span>

<\/span>In 2010, after Facebook violated users’ privacy by making key types of information public without proper consent or warning, Zuckerberg again responded with an apology\u2014this time published in an op-ed in The Washington Post<\/i>. \u201cWe just missed the mark,\u201d he said. \u201cWe heard the feedback,\u201d he added. \u201cThere needs to be a simpler way to control your information.\u201d \u201cIn the coming weeks, we will add privacy controls that are much simpler to use,\u201d he promised.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are you noticing a pattern?<\/p>\n

He’s Travis Kalanick in a hoodie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We know this because he has been shedding the same crocodile tears for almost 15 years: On 2003, one year before Facebook was founded, a website called Facemash began nonconsensually scraping pictures of students at Harvard from the school\u2019s intranet and asking users to rate their hotness. Obviously, it caused an outcry. The website\u2019s developer …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,364,387,366],"class_list":["post-179236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}