Facebook megathread

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps

Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.

The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.

That app, revealed yesterday by TechCrunch, was distributed outside of the App Store using Apple’s enterprise program, which allows developers to use special certificates to install more powerful apps onto iPhones. Those apps are only supposed to be used by a company’s employees, however, and Facebook had been distributing its tracking app to customers. Facebook later said it would shut down the app.

This poses a huge issue for Facebook. While Apple provides other tools a company can use to install apps internally, Apple’s enterprise program is the main solution for widely distributing internal apps and services. In an email, a Facebook spokesperson said “I can confirm that this affects our internal apps.”

In a statement given to Recode, Apple said that Facebook was in “clear breach of their agreement with Apple.” Any developer that breaches that agreement, Apple said, has their distribution certificates revoked, “which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data.” Apple declined to comment on shutting down all of Facebook’s internal apps in an email to The Verge.

Revoking a certificate not only stops apps from being distributed on iOS, but it also stops apps from working. And because internal apps by the same organization or developer may be connected to a single certificate, it can lead to immense headaches like the one Facebook now finds itself in where a multitude of internal apps have been shut down.

Apple and Facebook have already been bickering over privacy, but this is the first instance of Apple taking an action that directly shuts down some of Facebook’s activities. Last March, Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook’s handling of the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal, saying, “I wouldn’t be in this situation” if he were running the company. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later said the comments were “extremely glib” and spoke of Apple as a company that “work hard to charge you more.”

 

[Lifeguard Hermit]

when you grow tf up and realize that you were never racist and just despised the propagation of willful ignorance

Ill admit I had my concerns for the world until I left my home town and lived life a little but damn.

It is funny though that people still cant see regressive foreshadowing stuff like this lends to the horizon. They are gonna keep dogwhistling to racists until they cull enough of a live crop to go "LOOK!!!! SEE?!?!?! WAAAAACISTS!!!".

 

[The Last Stand]

How did this go from Facebook taking action against "white supremacy" pages and the like to "they're banning white people now"?

Facebook is a PRIVATELY OWNED COMPANY with terms and conditions that you should follow, lest you would get kicked out of their site. Does it always work? No. But at the end of their day, you're just taking up space on a website as everybody else. Use it or lose it.

Is everybody here trying to say "white supremacy" = white people? Isn't that racist in and of itself? All of you need to calm down. The Internet isn't going anyway. You're free to post what you want; just don't be a sperg about it.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Facebook is a PRIVATELY OWNED COMPANY with terms and conditions that you should follow ...

I'm sure glad it isn't the gubbermint that's neutering a massive part of how companies source their manpower.

 

[RG 448]

Is everybody here trying to say "white supremacy" = white people?

I am, I can’t speak for anyone else though.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

How did this go from Facebook taking action against "white supremacy" pages and the like to "they're banning white people now"?

Facebook is a PRIVATELY OWNED COMPANY

2025:

"Damn, my bank and my credit card company decided to close my accounts because I donated to the NRA and the Trump campaign! Oh well, at least it wasnt a government agency!"

 

[RG 448]

2025:

"Damn, my bank and my credit card company decided to close my accounts because I donated to the NRA and the Trump campaign! Oh well, at least it wasnt a government agency!"

And from there it’s only a matter of time before people start marrying animals and inanimate objects.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

And from there it’s only a matter of time before people start marrying animals and inanimate objects.

Pretty sure the Canadian Supreme Court (partially) decriminalized bestiality, and there's exceptionals out there marrying their waifu pillows.

Sources - http://archive.is/cpw9a & http://archive.is/Z2q9P

 

[RG 448]

Pretty sure the Canadian Supreme Court decriminalized bestiality, and there's exceptionals out there marrying their waifu pillows.

And it all started with Canada banning racism.

 

[The Last Stand]

If posting that you hate (insert race here) and other racist shit is so important to you that you're paranoid that other companies would follow suit, then you should stay off the Internet for a bit.

 

[Weppers]

If posting that you hate (insert race here) and other racist shit is so important to you that you're paranoid that other companies would follow suit, then you should stay off the Internet for a bit.

Being called white supremacist by 2 people at once could be all it takes to get a person ejected from every social media site that isn't blacklisted by Mastercard. People will make false accusations of extremism to hurt someone they don't like over the internet.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

If posting that you hate (insert race here) and other racist shit is so important to you that you're paranoid that other companies would follow suit, then you should stay off the Internet for a bit.

Since tech companies seem to have a habit of letting small left-wing groups disproportionately affect how they treat customers, especially left-wing groups that are prone to calling everyone racist/nazis/phobic/etc., and then get people "cancelled" constantly, including demanding that payment processors and banks terminate service, then you're clearly exceptional, and shouldn't be commenting.

Being called white supremacist by 2 people at once could be all it takes to get a person ejected from every social media site that isn't blacklisted by Mastercard. People will make false accusations of extremism to hurt someone they don't like over the internet.

If only we'd just watched a nigger faggot hoax a hate crime, because social media has a noted tendency to cause shit to go viral without fact-checking, we might have noticed this phenomenon... oh wait, outrage culture is fucking up everything, and the dolt you quoted is just happy it isn't the gubbermint doing it.

 

[RG 448]

Being called white supremacist by 2 people at once could be all it takes to get a person ejected from every social media site that isn't blacklisted by Mastercard.

Yeah but it’s not.

 

[Trombonista]

Being called white supremacist by 2 people at once could be all it takes to get a person ejected from every social media site that isn't blacklisted by Mastercard. People will make false accusations of extremism to hurt someone they don't like over the internet.

So don't get into political slapfights on Facebook.

 

[Prompt Critical]

So don't get into political slapfights on Facebook.

If you aren't just being contrary here, but honestly believe

1. This is something that is limited to just Facebook and not part of a broader push across a variety of platforms and services,
2. That the people who will be enforcing this are either able or willing to make fine distinctions between "the real racists" and anyone holding any moderately incorrect opinion on any mildly controversial topic,
3. That even if the real racists are accurately being identified, removing them from public discourse while also attacking their livelihoods and social connections is a good way to convince them of the error of their ways, and won't just drive them underground while further radicalizing them, or
4. That you can carve principled exceptions into the concept of free speech that only target bad speech and it will never have any repercussions for your ability to exercise those rights in the future

you are an idiot.

 

[RG 448]

If you aren't just being contrary here, but honestly believe

1. This is something that is limited to just Facebook and not part of a broader push across a variety of platforms and services,
2. That the people who will be enforcing this are either able or willing to make fine distinctions between "the real racists" and anyone holding any moderately incorrect opinion on any mildly controversial topic,
3. That even if the real racists are accurately being identified, removing them from public discourse while also attacking their livelihoods and social connections is a good way to convince them of the error of their ways, and won't just drive them underground while further radicalizing them, or
4. That you can carve principled exceptions into the concept of free speech that only target bad speech and it will never have any repercussions for your ability to exercise those rights in the future

you are an idiot.

All of those outcomes except 3 are not only possible but likely lol

 

[BILLY MAYS]

So don't get into political slapfights on Facebook.

That even if the real racists are accurately being identified, removing them from public discourse while also attacking their livelihoods

->Facebook
->livelihood

 

[Prompt Critical]

->Facebook
->livelihood

Nice reading comprehension there dolt. You seem to have missed #1 (this isn't just Facebook). It's a broad push that encompasses everything from dragging people on Twitter for some milquetoast opinion or joke they shared a decade ago, banning them from social media or secretly restricting their access to the service, limiting access to payment processors, internet hosting and sometimes even physical banks, directly contacting employers to get them fired, etc. etc.

 

[HeyYou]

All of those outcomes except 3 are not only possible but likely lol

This thread is full of alt-lite goobers, but you're getting a big fat for that, buddy.

 

[RG 448]

for some milquetoast opinion or joke they shared a decade ago,

We’re talking about demonstrable racism. There’s literally only one type of person who gets upset at the restriction of demonstrable racism.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

We’re talking about demonstrable racism. There’s literally only one type of person who gets upset at the restriction of demonstrable racism.

I wouldve agreed with you 10-15 years ago when we didn't have people shifting the goalposts on what racism is and actively trying to get people fired etc. Barack Obama's 2008 campaign positions on immigration are now evil Nazism. Also, smirking at a minority while wearing the wrong hat and lacking melanin is a horrific hate crime deserving of being fed into a woodchipper or burned alive