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.”

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

I’ve never lost a debate to the best of my very selective memory.

Haha, you asshole. You're my long lost twin I think.

 

[Kalishnakov]

Thank you Cosmos, very cool.

If my private company decides they don't want to host blacks or gays, how would that work out for me in the great United States of Freedomland? Oh, that's illegal? Okay, then I don't give a shit about what Facebook wants to host or not host, they can serve everyone without discriminating.

But, that would be equality and we can't have that in the middle of this farcical 'Identity politics' war and "extra special equality" for the already equal but we can't state that they are different due to gender or race. Just pretend to be blind to the obvious and validate whatever anyone claims.

It's kind of weird logic, but that is the new science and it has next to nothing to do with reality, but is based on 'muh feels.'

 

[QI 541]

So I take it no one will object the next time I claim the farms is full of neo-nazis using this thread as evidence?

 

[cuddle striker]

So I take it no one will object the next time I claim the farms is full of neo-nazis using this thread as evidence?

count me out.

 

[X Prime]

So I take it no one will object the next time I claim the farms is full of neo-nazis using this thread as evidence?

Your posts are in it, so nobody could reasonably object.

Fascist potato, fascist pohtato.

 

[Kalishnakov]

Facebook and the current stink are no different than the groups they attempt to vilify.

“Populist,” “Nationalist,” “White Nationalist”
In order to make persecution publicly palatable of the average non "woke" citizen, globalist propagandists have branded average Joe as a biological threat to the planet. Government-sponsored racist propaganda is widely distributed denouncing average Joes as “populists,” and “parasitic,” and responsible for cultural, political, and economic “degeneration.” These words have an enormous effect, creating an environment in which persecution and violence are acceptable. ( but then they will blame Trump by some weird twist of logic ) Teachers are banned from teaching books about history of their respective countries. Works of art must meet "inclusive" ideology and gender is no longer an empirical fact or observation of the biology and if you point it out, you are labeled a transphobe. Much worse, average Joe has become less human in the globalist eye, and less worthy of society’s protection.

But its sanctioned by the government and FB, that Tommy Robinson guilty of raising awareness of the rape of the UK's children, is to be de-personed?

Don't recall that the Nazi regime was one that promoted raping their own kids.

 

[RG 448]

Banning racism is not an attack on white ppl lmfao

 

[дядя Боря]

But its sanctioned by the government and FB, that Tommy Robinson guilty of raising awareness of the rape of the UK's children, is to be de-personed?

Don't recall that the Nazi regime was one that promoted raping their own kids.

I jest re-watched 1984 last nnight, holy shit was Orwell spot on. Yes, Tommy will be de-personed, erased, like he never existed. Google results will return nothing, no memory of him past or present shall exist. The only consolation is that he wasn't tortured to made to love the party before his demise ... not yet.

About five years ago when Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, Faceplant miraculously banned the crap out of the opposition, they still do. It had something to do with local Faceplant office that was stacked with pro-Russian .gov and trolls were easily be able to game the algorithm ... or was that a feature?

Banning racism is not an attack on white ppl lmfao

it is because, only white people are capable of racism. Racism is an innate attribute of the white race. A black person can not be racist ... this is what mainstream kultcha tells us, same if other non-whites ... unless they are hispanic and did something questionable, then they are white and consequently racist.

It's like Catholic church and the "original sin", The original sin of white people is racism. When white babies are born, the get automatic membership in NSDAP.

 

[CatParty]

it is because, only white people are capable of racism. Racism is an innate attribute of the white race. A black person can not be racist ... this is what mainstream kultcha tells us, same if other non-whites ... unless they are hispanic and did something questionable, then they are white and consequently racist.

It's like Catholic church and the "original sin", The original sin of white people is racism. When white babies are born, the get automatic membership in NSDAP.

nah anyone can be racist, silly

 

[дядя Боря]

nah anyone can be racist, silly

Is thoughtcrime, comrade

 

[KeyserBroze]

I jest re-watched 1984 last nnight, holy shit was Orwell spot on. Yes, Tommy will be de-personed, erased, like he never existed. Google results will return nothing, no memory of him past or present shall exist. The only consolation is that he wasn't tortured to made to love the party before his demise ... not yet.

If you haven't seen Panodrama by Tommy Robinson it's definitely worth a watch, regardless what one thinks of him personally or his politics it's an interesting look at the BBC and how it collaborates with 'misguided' individuals for material.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Banning racism is not an attack on white ppl lmfao

What happened to you? Did dynastia hack your account? You usually aren't such a low effort troll...

 

[RG 448]

What happened to you? Did dynastia hack your account? You usually aren't such a low effort troll...

It genuinelly confuses me a little when people call me a troll for fucking around on kiwi farms.

 

[not william stenchever]

It genuinelly confuses me a little when people call me a troll for fucking around on kiwi farms.

It's because you're venerable enough around these parts that we don't want to think you are a genuine retard.

 

[Kommie]

Banning racism is not an attack on white ppl lmfao

Odd how they don't ban BLM or other group forums that push for nationalism of a their race, huh?

 

[RG 448]

It's because you're venerable enough around these parts that we don't want to think you are a genuine exceptional individual.

I’m an idiot trying to amuse himself, nobody should be taking me seriously.

 

[Kalishnakov]

If you haven't seen Panodrama by Tommy Robinson it's definitely worth a watch, regardless what one thinks of him personally or his politics it's an interesting look at the BBC and how it collaborates with 'misguided' individuals for material.

Not unlike the covert collaboration which is responsible for some of the cows?

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

I’m an idiot trying to amuse himself, nobody should be taking me seriously.

Aren't we all...

You are fucking good at being disarming, you know that? You can rile me up, then have me laughing with a single line. Maybe you should go into politics.

 

[дядя Боря]

If you haven't seen Panodrama by Tommy Robinson it's definitely worth a watch, regardless what one thinks of him personally or his politics it's an interesting look at the BBC and how it collaborates with 'misguided' individuals for material.

that was a good watch, fucktube seem to take it down often ... it's also raycist apparently when part of the establishment outs themselves as racists, homophobes and elitists. ... and totally no lines blurred between state media and "private" non profits with agenda. We got NPR in the states.

 

[Kalishnakov]

If you haven't seen Panodrama by Tommy Robinson it's definitely worth a watch, regardless what one thinks of him personally or his politics it's an interesting look at the BBC and how it collaborates with 'misguided' individuals for material.

Holy shit. Didn't know about this documentary,and Tommy found the same crap with 'Hope, not hate.'
Damn.