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.”

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Attention whore.

"Why do they do this to me, don't they see I'm a Jew so everything bad that happens to me is literally the Holocaust again?"

 

[ButterBar]

He's an obscenely flamboyant Gay Jew who exclusively dates black guys wft is conservative about Milo?

He argued gay men should marry women and have kids to pass on their genes and fuck guys in bathhouses on the side, though being gay or black do not make you not a conservative. Race fetishizing and obscene flamboyance kind of make you not all that conservative.

His political views, the main thing that makes you a conservative.
Log cabin Republicans are a thing (one spoke at the last Republican National Convention,) as are black Republicans (Thomas, Sowell,) and Jews (Shapiro, Finkelstein.)

His political views arent very conservative though. He doesn't seem to see a lot of value in tradition for example.

 

[boulderblundermatt90]

oh look. a nice little thing to slap facebook with a lawsuit, which they themselves will cause.

seriously, what the fuck is it with social media and blatantly ignoring libel and defamation laws? its like people who use it think the rules are law and how dare the law try to enforce the law on these platforms?

 

[Recoil]

Isn't farrakhan kinda far right? Is it wrong to put him on the far left when he's basically a pallete swapped Klan member?

 

[ButterBar]

Isn't farrakhan kinda far right? Is it wrong to put him on the far left when he's basically a pallete swapped Klan member?

The Klan is Democrat in origin and the southern strategy swap never happened. Farrakhan and some of what the media calls "extreme-right" that isn't just talking about your bog standard conservative but a fringe group has a tendency to have more in common with left wing ideas. Farrakhan is a black separatist who wants blacks exempt from taxes and all the welfare and big government socialist benefits but for blacks only. Hes firmly anti-Jewish, left-wing, and all about Black empowerment. The women's march, that big left wing feminist event was led by one of his followers. Take of that what you will.

 

[Splendid]

I intentionally made an insensitive comparison to a genocide on a day dedicated to remembering that genocide. Please pity me.

 

[Recoil]

The Klan is Democrat in origin, and the southern strategy never happened. Farrakhan and a lot of what the media calls "far-right" have a tendency to have more in common with left wing ideas. Farrakhan is a black separatist who wants blacks exempt from taxes and all the welfare and big government socialist benefits but for blacks only.

So, like... a democratic national socialism hybrid, then?

 

[RodgerDodger]

Milo Yiannopoulos far right lol WTF?... We far right hate faggots as much as Jews.
Milo is a fucking libertarian cunt.

Yes, because there is nothing quite so “right wing” as a gay Catholic/Jew married to a Black Man.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Calling it that they only banned Farrakhan (and had the media put him first on the list when rattling the banned names off), to insulate themselves from being caught engaging in another purging of conservative purge on the site.

 

[ButterBar]

So, like... a democratic national socialism hybrid, then?

Well Farrakhan sure does like Hitler. It's a weird cult that believes that white people are actually a science experiment of an evil black man thousands of years ago to strip real humans of their melanin that ties them to God to create the Albinoids, a soulless race of evil to take out the woke black scientists of Egypt and their wakanda futuristic utopia. They want race mixing illegal and stuff like that but economically are very left wing and racist as fuck just like a good chunk of the left.

 

[Recoil]

Farrakhan sure does like Hitler. It's a weird cult that believes that white people are actually a science experiment of an evil black man thousands of years ago to strip real humans of their melanin that ties them to God to create the Albinoids, a soulless race of evil to take out the woke black scientists of Egypt and their wakanda futuristic utopia. They want race mixing illegal and stuff like that but economically are very left wing and racist as fuck just like most of the left.

Oh yeah, Yakub bullshit, right? It's like scientology for black racists.

They must've eaten up Black Pantser with a spoon.

 

[MirrorNoir]

oh look. a nice little thing to slap facebook with a lawsuit, which they themselves will cause.

seriously, what the fuck is it with social media and blatantly ignoring libel and defamation laws? its like people who use it think the rules are law and how dare the law try to enforce the law on these platforms?

Big tech is fucking huge and more to the point, suing them for their bullshit would cost you a mountain of money and then some. Facebook/Twitter etc are sitting on huge war chests and can outspend anyone suing them for their bullshit, so it never sees the light of day in court. And in the meantime, the lunatic left basically now are trying to bring forth Nazi-esque changes banning conservatives from being allowed to use banking services on top of pressuring Patreon, etc to ban conservatives from using their services. Meaning you can't even crowdsource fund lawsuits to help you survive while you sue.

 

[ButterBar]

Oh yeah, Yakub bullshit, right? It's like scientology for black racists.

They must've eaten up Black Pantser with a spoon.

Farrakhan also endorses Dianetics as legitimate and they have a partnership with Scientology now that you mention it. and yeah, Yakub comes from the Nation of Islam, and they probably hated black panther because they thought the villain should have been the hero.

 

[Ruin]

Also Farrakhan is heavily suspected to have been the one to order the assassination of Malcolm X so there's that too.

 

[crocodilian]

We far right

 

[BILLY MAYS]

run threadsim

 

[Recoil]

Also Farrakhan is heavily suspected to have been the one to order the assassination of Malcolm X so there's that too.

Heavily suspected is one way to put it...
I've heard that from a lot of people. Older people who recall the era.

 

[boulderblundermatt90]

Big tech is fucking huge and more to the point, suing them for their bullshit would cost you a mountain of money and then some. Facebook/Twitter etc are sitting on huge war chests and can outspend anyone suing them for their bullshit, so it never sees the light of day in court. And in the meantime, the lunatic left basically now are trying to bring forth Nazi-esque changes banning conservatives from being allowed to use banking services on top of pressuring Patreon, etc to ban conservatives from using their services. Meaning you can't even crowdsource fund lawsuits to help you survive while you sue.

I already covered this elsewhere, but they can't totally block you from receiving a livlihood. I could go over the ways but its a waste. when there's a will, there's a way is perfectly applicable to this situation.

their only hope is to make their own nation and make it a tyrannical nation. otherwise, they'll live forever miserable and it will always bring a smile to my face knowing this.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

They only banned Farrakhan to appear unbiased.

Side note, the leaders of “Womxn’s March” are still there and still have not apologized for supporting farrhakan. This puts a lot of pressure to get rid of Linda “cockroach” Sarsour and Tamika “gas the Jews” Mallory.

 

[Noel Edmonds]

That's what they get for using platforms proven to be diametrically opposed to their political viewpoints. Is the Facebook demographic really that big an audience for these guys? It's their own faults for assuming they'd be allowed to operate freely in a transparently restrictive environment.