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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.”
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BoingoTango said:
Seriously, anyone who can legitimately have the opinion that women going topless and men going topless is the same thing are either complete shut-ins who get all their opinions from listening to new wave feminists trying to find something to screech about, or live in some shit hole African country where people haven't been able to cover up for so long that everyone is used to it.

Why should we try to change a whole society's view point of breasts just to fit into a narrative created by women with a chip on their shoulder and a severe need to create unnecessary conflict between genders to justify their existence?
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We don't know why we're doing this thing but the people saying we should stop are annoying, so let's not stop!

It's not a completely unreasonable position but acting like it's obviously the objective truth is a bit odd.
 
BoingoTango said:
Why should we try to change a whole society's view point of breasts just to fit into a narrative created by women with a chip on their shoulder and a severe need to create unnecessary conflict between genders to justify their existence?
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Because if it injects some extra tiddies into my day then it is totally worth it, as long as they are good tiddies that is.
 
V0dka said:
I found this argument interesting because I ran into the Breast Feeding Moms community recently. They swear up and down the videos they post are educational and how breast feeding is simply natural and not sexual, and then they uploaded videos of the themselves naked and orgasming during breastfeeding. So is the breast sexual or not?

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Most of her stuff has been taken down, but her tamer videos are still out there.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jwCbqdK4vBo
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Jeez, that's creepy!

Breastfeeding is fine, but.. that lady makes me uncomfortable. Also, there's really no need to make videos about breastfeeding. You literally do that the moment the baby is born. 😒
 
V0dka said:
No wonder youtube recommended me this video, they know I like naked women and Trump. Geniuses.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=C6pP_jfCejI
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Straight up!. There are multiple sources that shit like that is click bait...and contributes to the profile they build of users. They are a type of honey trap. Viewing vids with nipples, breasts, dongs and so on can suggest an interest in breaking social norms and an anti-authority personality. I was told that by a senior software engineer in a social media monitoring company. Then I saw it in an academic paper. But what it means depends on a mess of other things too. You might be a drawing student or a doctor.....
I get shitty with the feminists babbling on about this. It's part of their "females are so special" narrative. Nipples or whatever are a non issue. What I find interesting is the actual reason for the prohibiting nipples on youtube.... Like, it's ok in an Art Gallery. But I do not want to see it when I am in the grocery store. Time and place for everything. But fuck. I am sick of all these different people pathologizing everything.
As for those Moms and their breast feeding vids ... that is just weird to put it out there. But that youtube permit that and take down videos of art just show how fucked that place is.
 
The won't somebody think of the poor 'x' argument is and has always been stupid. Idiots will always be idiots. If they're not mixing ammonia and bleach in their bathtubs to cure AIDS because Facebook told them to they'll just go to sucking the piss out of live rattlesnakes instead because Becky from down the street said it's an ancient panacea

It's my right as an American to 100% unabashedly state that my President is a reptilian and the earth is flat and the only thing Facebook should be allowed to do in response is thank me for my patronage
 
Good job idiots! Now all these retarded boomers and airy granola millenials will shriek even harder about how this proves them right and how big pharma wants to prevent them from preventing whooping cough by wearing a fucking quartz crystal
 
Nope. You don’t ban these people, you just present the tens of thousands of man hours of work that shows they’re wrong.

I work in the realms of science/clinical whatnot and I’m a huge proponent of evidence based medicine. I still don’t want people like this banned. Banning does nothing but fuel it.

More bloody science literacy would help. More public awareness of stats. Schools should teach a course on ‘basic statistical stuff, how to evaluate research and critical thinking.’ So that they can look at stuff and say ‘no hang on...’

Fb are a malign force. I do not come to any harm by being exposed to ideas that are weird, or wrong.

Also glyphosate does indeed seem to be rather bad for human health - Bayer just bought Monsanto and their share price is down almost 50%, because of the Roundup thing. Whoever did that due diligence must be shitting themselves

What happens when we are all so coddled that we’ve lost the ability to examine an idea that’s unpleasant, critique it and challenge it? Oh yes, we are ripe for exploitation. Just look at the state of academia after a decade of no platforming, trigger warnings and safe spaces.
 
I'm glad they keep alienating people. I don't give a fuck if you wash your hair with vinegar so long as you can work a rifle when the time comes to drive the snakes back into their holes. Metaphorically.
 
www.bbc.co.uk

Carney gives Facebook currency cautious welcome

Bank of England gives Facebook currency cautious welcome as it looks to the future of money.
www.bbc.co.uk

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is expected to give Facebook's proposed digital currency Libra a cautious welcome in a major speech on Thursday.

He will say it could could substantially lower costs and increase financial inclusion, but needs regulation.

Mr Carney is also expected to announce that non-banks will be able to hold Bank of England accounts.

And he will highlight climate and sustainability concerns.

Mark Carney has given a swift and positive reaction to Facebook's plan, unveiled just last week, and one that will no doubt please Mark Zuckerberg and his partners.

However, while Mr Carney will say he has an open mind, he is not offering an open door.

Unlike social media, where regulation is struggling to catch up after its mass adoption by billions of users, Mr Carney is promising to make sure regulation to protect against risks including data privacy and money laundering is ready in advance.

Libra is intended to be a currency that can be transferred via social media with its value based on a basket of real life currencies rather than the so-called crypto currencies whose value is not linked to existing exchange rates.

Libra, says Mr Carney, could be systemically important - and will be regulated accordingly.

This is a significant speech in many ways and may be looked back on as the time the fusty old bank of England really donned its digital trousers.

Bank of England accounts
Less headline-grabbing than Facebook but arguably more important was the announcement that the Bank of England will allow non-banks to have an account with them.

All the commercial banks we as customers bank with have their own account at the Bank of England where they store their reserves.

Allowing non-banks - for example payment companies like Square and Worldpay - to have their own account could make payments faster, cheaper, more reliable and more available to people outside the traditional banking system.

When I asked Bank officials what the existing High Street banks thought of this - there were some wry smiles - one said "I'm sure they will have a point of view and will want to express it".

Climate concerns
The governor said the most important future risk was that posed by climate change.

This is a favourite subject of his and the Bank of England will be among the first regulators in the world to include the cost of future climate change (floods, droughts, crop failures, property damage) when it assesses whether financial institutions are strong enough to survive a crisis.

Mark Carney has just over six months left in the job.

With this speech he is laying out a way to future proof the financial system he has overseen for nearly a decade.
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Honestly, Libra is such a fuckin' pretentious name. Piss off Zuck and Get the Hell out Carney the Canuck Cuck
 
Are you guys all mistaking libra for libre?

Libra is the old Roman currency and is where lb, £, lira, etc, come from.

It's totally an anti-metric pro-European white supremacist dog whistle.
 
England should use zuckbucks exclusively. Give it a year or two and watch the recession hit hard. Maybe they'll get their stuff together.
 
The cyberpunks, libertarians and dark net dope peddles that love cryptos won't touch this with a ten foot pole, but I can see this gaining a lot of traction with the type of people who use facebook. Looks like Zuckerberg is gonna try to be a cyber Jew banker now that he's figured out that he is too autistic to run for president.
 
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