[lbo-talk] your Facebook is their fortune

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 4 07:36:43 PST 2009


On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:53 PM, B. wrote:


> Saying that the classic civil libertarian concern for privacy (in
> this instance) is a "fetish," as Doug did, is a patronizing way to
> short-sell the concern.

Lemme try this one more time. I'm not talking about fear of the gov or of employers - I'm talking about the anxiety that Facebook will sell "my" info to marketers, who might try to microtarget me with stuff. I just don't care about this at all. I would care about Homeland Security, though.

Doug



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