Episode 15 - Terms of Service

Facebook has entered nearly every part of our internet connected lives. Most of us aren't happy with this, but tolerate it as a part of modern day living. But as we dig deeper into this social media and advertising juggernaut, we start to learn that maybe we shouldn't trust Zuckerberg and crew with so much of our world and our own lives.

Join us as we explore psychological experiments, obscene image work farms, revenge porn, and so much more in this episode all about Facebook.

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Chapters

01:17 A Purpose?
02:42 Why Facebook?
04:58 Evolution
08:42 VPN
10:50 Facebook in Business
13:11 Unfairly Crushing Competition
17:06 Providing Internet
22:01 The Internet as a Right?
24:03 News Feed Algorithms
35:22 Psychological Experiments
39:52 Think of the Children
41:39 Ethics
43:06 Slaves to Offensive Pictures
45:17 Revenge Porn
48:18 Trust and Security
49:12 Facebook and Intelligence
52:55 Censorship
56:12 Elections
1:00:03 'Don't use it'
1:01:38 Ghost Profiles
1:02:45 Real Life
1:04:35 A Challenge Resolved
1:05:18 Question Everything

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Published 15-03-2018 03:01