{"id":633,"date":"2010-11-30T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=633"},"modified":"2011-02-17T21:07:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T01:07:31","slug":"wikileaks-and-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2010\/11\/30\/wikileaks-and-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks and Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2010\/11\/wikileaks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-634\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2010\/11\/wikileaks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"89\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2010\/11\/wikileaks\" target=\"_blank\">This Economist blog<\/a> compares Wikileaks to Facebook as part of a broader trend towards transparency\u00a0throughout\u00a0society.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are echoes here of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/external\/readwriteweb\/2010\/01\/10\/10readwriteweb-facebooks-zuckerberg-says-the-age-of-privac-82963.html\">famously aggressive position<\/a> that society is evolving towards more transparency and less privacy (a belief which is certainly convenient for a social-networking site that wants to be able to sell users&#8217; data). Maybe it&#8217;s something about tech geeks, or maybe it&#8217;s just related to the self-interest of people and organisations whose particular strength lies in an ability to get a hold of other people&#8217;s information. But it definitely seems like we&#8217;re learning a lesson here: while information may want to be free, human beings are usually better off when it&#8217;s on a leash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/29\/world\/29cables.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">this New York Times story<\/a> summarizes the Wikileaks issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Economist blog compares Wikileaks to Facebook as part of a broader trend towards transparency\u00a0throughout\u00a0society. There are echoes here of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s\u00a0famously aggressive position that society is evolving towards more transparency and less privacy (a belief which is certainly convenient for a social-networking site that wants to be able to sell users&#8217; data). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}