oralfloss,
I had decided to give you the last word, but this seems to be the thread that
keeps on giving.
I don't use facebook so I'm not sure if it is SaaSS or PaaS and to tell you
the truth, I don't think it matters. I had already conceded to Magic Banana's
post where he said neither Trisquel nor facebook are SaaSS: "You are right."
I will do so again: facebook at its core is not SaaSS and you can run it
using 100% free software. You can also run SaaSS on it as far as I
understand.
However, you keep arguing that facebook respects your freedom. Somehow you
have concluded that as long as you run free software then whatever else you
do is irrelevant to your freedom. I disagree. The intrusion into your
privacy, the mass profiling, surveillance, social mapping, predictive
modeling and all the other BI that is run on all the data given to facebook
constitute attacks against freedom. I contend that without privacy you cannot
have freedom.
I consider facebook one of the most dangerous attacks on freedom of thought
currently. It is a monstrous creation and I cannot wait for the day when it
is gone. I just hope we have something ethical to replace it with.
