Can social media censor content? Google does it. So does FB and Twitter
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 21, 2025 14:48
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I understand FB can get my contact info from my friends who are on FB, even if I'm not. I just don't believe they get everything from my friend JSF says, like my SSN, the names of my children, etc.
Nah... They don't get that from your friend. It's easy enough for them to get it elsewhere, like using the data breeches that anybody who ever has gone online has been a part of at least one in their lives.
I mean... unless you're making it easier on them by dictating your SS# out loud within reach of Alexa for some reason.
Like I said in a prior post I edited that you may not have read...
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You could always check your email address or phone number on a site like https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to see if any data breaches are on record with that info.
I mean... neither Google nor Wikipedia tell you that it's not safe to do so.
;)
However, I really don't recommend that you do so. Not only will that info be collected (you typing in your personal information from your current IP address), but do you really even want to know the answer to the question?
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
ETA - I was harping about this for years, but nobody seemed to care.
So was I.
Then Snowden blew the lid off the whole thing and all the people who said that I was crazy for years stopped saying I was crazy.
Two weeks later, nobody gave a shit again ("I needz muh smurt fone!"), so I figured why should I let it drive me crazy anymore?
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Oh, and contrary to Ted's belief, VPN's don't do shit but add another 3rd party to the data collection mix.
They might have saved him from a two-bit nobody like me getting his IP address when I rickrolled him, but that's about it.
And when NordVPN was hacked (3rd video), all of their data was also dumped to the world, so the fact that they willingly hand over your information to advertisers and the government just like your cable company does is moot anyhow.
5 bucks says that the government themselves, or people on payroll at Facebook are the "hackers" that do these data dumps in the first place.
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In the last week or 2, Kim Kommando shared a study on privacy. Before starting the survey questions, a privacy waiver had to be signed.
The real test/survey WAS the waiver.
Regardless of how they answered, every participant signed the contract which gave away the right to name their first-born child, the entirety of their income starting next year, and other outrageous stuff which none of them had bothered to read.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
In the last week or 2, Kim Kommando shared a study on privacy. Before starting the survey questions, a privacy waiver had to be signed.
The real test/survey WAS the waiver.
Regardless of how they answered, every participant signed the contract which gave away the right to name their first-born child, the entirety of their income starting next year, and other outrageous stuff which none of them had bothered to read.
lol... yup.
It's easy to do this:
When an embarrassing amount of people believe this:
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Quote:I was thinking it had been mentioned, do you have a link to those posts?
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
ETA - I was harping about this for years, but nobody seemed to care.
Every time I saw somebody talk about FB, I tuned out.
But thinking about FB creating a shadow profile on me, I brought it up here.
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I'm sure you could reverse lookup when I posted this video here many, many years back if you know how do that kind of thing.
;)
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Quote:OK, maybe I see your confusion now.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I understand FB can get my contact info from my friends who are on FB, even if I'm not. I just don't believe they get my "SSN, all of your phone numbers, address, DoB, children" etc from my FB-loving friend, like JSF says.
FB is not directly datamining YOUR devices, I don't think.
Maybe think of it as inference, inferring. Whatever happens on/in/around, or is eavesdropped by any device/appliance with a microphone (aka "voice recognition/activated") while you are at your friend's place, in your friend's presence, or on the phone with your friend.
Are you absolutely certain your friend NEVER mentions you on FB, telling others about this friend of hers named 1kiki?
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I already posted a video that shows the TOS of Instagram/Facebook laid out in detail above, and broken down into laymen terms.
Her friends don't need to mention her on Instagram/Facebook to get her info. She doesn't need to be mentioned around Alexa or talk around Alexa herself.
All she needs to do is have a friend or family member who signed up for Instagram/Facebook that has any of her information in their phone without actively turning off the data mining "features" they agreed to, and they've got that info. (Which means they've pretty much got everybody's info. And it also means that it is entirely out of your hands.)
They don't even need people anymore to cross reference that data with other data and data breech dumps online to put the other pieces together. The algorithms powered by servers that cost millions today and will be in your smart phone 10 years from now for 500 bucks do all that heavy lifting.
Unless you've never gone online before, they've got it all. And chances are with medical, credit and other financial records that were once only on paper and then converted to digital being the norm, all at companies whom at one time or another have been victims of data breeches, your shadow profile is probably already complete even if you've never touched a computer in your life like my grandma.
Everyone you know were unwitting yet willing accomplices that gave it all to them, no matter how much you tried yourself to protect that information.
The question isn't how do you protect your information. It's already far too late to do anything about that.
The real question is are we going to make our collective Governments protect us from the people who know every dirty detail about us, or just poke our heads back in the sand and let the chips fall where they may?
I'm guessing it will be the latter, since half of this country already goes around championing the idea of corporations trampling over our rights in the name of "safety".
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I don't mean to make anybody paranoid, and I hope that's not the case.
It's counterproductive to be paranoid. Ask me how I know.
If it's any solace to you, know that you're in very good company and that as important anybody believes themselves to be, most people really aren't all that interesting and unless you want to run for public office or aspire to some other high profile position anywhere, you're probably very likely to live out the rest of your life as a cog in the consumerism machine without the fact that somebody knows everything about you ever impacting it outside of targeted advertising being thrown your direction every second.
Yanno... just so long as you aren't going around breaking any laws in the real world or pissing off any powerful people.
ETA: Said powerful people are already similarly owned, but obviously the stakes are much higher. They do the bidding of their masters once they obtain those positions no matter what their ideals were before they finally made it. Everybody has skeletons in their closet. Show me somebody who you believe doesn't and I'll show you a liar.
Why do you suppose that nothing positive ever happens and things always seem to get worse as the years go by?
Just ask Elliot Spitzer what he was up to before they cancelled him.
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