Interesting event happened today!

happy new year friends :)
Today I had a very interesting event for my UNA community portal, I have FB announcements group for the community web site that I established 2 years ago.
Since August but more from December I was trying to explain people what big data is and why they should choose open source social media solutions.
Of course these announceents and chats are usually on FB platform.
Today I wanted to add my own friends to my fb group who are not invited yet...
After selecting list of friends, before adding the 7th friend, FB blocked me from adding anyone to my own group. It gave no explanation. "Just you are not allowed to add members to this group."
I guess big brothers are now aware of us :)))

Andrew Boon  Mark Purser  Baloo 

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    • Shocking!! Should complain 'though! 

      • wow that's interesting Cem Bagdatli  - I haven't seen evidence of Facebook censoring their detractors - and I've seen a lot of anti-FB speak on Facebook. But it would be naive to think that they are not monitoring the chatter - obviously you crossed an unspoken line and you are now an outcast! Congratuations Cem, you are now officially a revolutionary!

        • Yes Mark Purser it will be naive to think that they are not monitoring the very possible treats to them.

          May be this block is only a coincidence I will check the situation lets see ...
          last week I checked what FB knows about me:


          from 1998 all countries and cities I visited, duration of visits, hotels, airports used and dates, with whom I was there , who I visited
          my education life, school mates, my profession, jobs
          my all work places, how much I worked at them
          my current work place, from which route I go to work, at what time I start, at what time I finish, after work where I go usually
          what i read, what I watch, my political view, my religious ideas, what type of women I like!
          if I am married, if I have children, all their names and all infos like mine
          all my relatives
          all my friends, who are my best friends, with who I dont have good relations
          how much my possible income is
          what is the brand of my car, my motorcyle
          and many more I can not guess now!
          my mother doesnt know these all informations about me!
          Thats tooooo much!

          • Hello, the worst Cem is that Facebook will never forget you, you have surrendered the rights for life. I believe that if we are aware of the danger, we underestimate it. If we look back, one day someone had the wonderful idea of having religion put on identity cards in a certain country. A little later, a man with a mustache came to power, and then everyone knows how he used this simple piece of data and then what happened.
            Imagine if this man had had a tool like Facebook at the time ... it's cold in the back. The next will not have the same face, he will probably not be a single man. Let us beware of the plague, and fight against this future danger.
            Yes it's too much!

            • Here's a scary thought for you,  Facebook has more personal information about everyone in the world than all government agencies COMBINED! 

              • yes I guess so Chris ...

                • We will fight!

                  • Facebook kicked me out permanently for starting a group searching for Sam Rainsy and bring him to court. He has 12 government cases and over 70 cases from private companies.  Prior to that I got banned for posting a picture of indigenous African people. They called it "sexual content". I see how bare breasts from 1880 is considered to be a world wide threat to the human species.
                    My wife got banned for a month for posting a picture of tree-root which looked like a penis. Apparently nature is not allowed to produce things that resembles dangerous human genitalia. *sigh*

                    • I served in Syria. The European command left my unit behind down there. After three months, some US troops picked us up. The European command are cowards. Only acting as long as they think they have the advantage. It's same with facebook. They only have the advantage in numbers. If we manage to steal members away, Facebook will eventually wither and die. But to do that, the developing people needs easy access tools to make short process of facebook.
                      Facebook is the terrorist. UNA is the special force counter intelligence.

                      • I am European, but not proud of it, I just say one thing, the EU does not act in the interest of its people, but for the interest of the great financial powers that control it, which leads to also fight against his own people, dirty time ... But I think that his days are counted, by being too greedy, it becomes difficult to hide. They are like robbers of banks, they do not know how to stop in time.

                        • At the scale of Facebook you can do interesting things that are hard to catch, like:

                          - Make “range” moderation rules and use the algorithmic feed for activity to be suppressed or amplified depending on desired global outcome.  Collect data and feed it to your AI processor to let it figure out which posts, groups, users, posts should get more exposure and which should be “limited” in order to achieve higher page views counts or a more positive perception of certain brand/idea/believe/concept. 

                          - Generate fake “reactions” to advertised content by displaying different original posts to viewers, getting likes/comments/shares and attributing them to advertised content when viewed by the advertiser. Usersndont care because of transient nature of Facebook feeds - their content reactions is buried after a few days for them (but is sold to advertisers as a main value proposition). I even made a video of this very same scam they did and forced FB refund all our advertising payments a couple of years ago. Now they banned us from advertising. 🙄 

                          - Condition perspectives to provoke ad-clicks/purchases. For example, promote organic posts that AI identified psychological anchors driving purchase decisions and match them with ads. Say, make people feel overconfident about they income and then push ads for personal loans. 

                          Now, that is the real reason why MarkZ was so adamant about getting a free pass on AI regulations when Elon Musk called for extra oversight. It’s not because they want the Messenger to give better handy tips, it’s because they want AI to save their asses and drain everything they can from the users  

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