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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
by Sarah Wynn-Williams
ISBN: 1250391237
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alex1138
· 2026-04-13 ·
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I've never seen him as honest. Whatever you think of individual incidents (was Cambridge Analytica a real scandal politically or just a data scandal? - or whatever) he's just... not a... well, he's a "careless person" (
https://www.amazon.com/Careless-People-Cautionary-Power-Idea...
) Facebook's entire history is them either changing privacy on post settings, or changing TOS (rug pulling) or people not being able to either see each others posts (
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719
,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32826437
) or not being able to contact each other (
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433
,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712
)
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