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My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.
With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.
https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/
It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.
(Don’t hold your breaths.)
CC @EUCommission You folks awake yet?
No, but I am. Nice assessment of the parts you read, and I can see why you stopped. One must consider that these "tell all" books only tell the all the author includes. At the risk of being Pollyanna, there's always a rebuttal they leave out.
That said, Facebook is evil. People farming is evil. But bans are unpopular and hard to justify to the masses. Until they know what Facebook is doing to them personally, no one will care.
Let's hope they read this book.
@Professor_Stevens @EUCommission Oh, I read the whole thing. But I can’t be arsed to go into every anecdote :)
Ah, so you did. I am up, but wasn’t fully awake.
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That may be part of it. I recently went off the stuff, switching to tea. A more serene way to start the day, but the jolt is smaller.
@aral @EUCommission surely preventing the delivery of our every thought, movement and action to the IT arm of the Russia-US axis is at least as important to our common defense as manufacture of munitions? Perhaps even (hear me out here) more important given that they have a propaganda machine delivering billions of messages per day to European eyeballs?
Might this even be an issue of sovereignty?
@aral if the stakes weren't so high it'd be cute how the @EUCommission still acts as though vassalage is even still on the menu. Old habits are hard to break.
@aral @EUCommission Give it a decade or two ...