---The Solomon Islands Government has defended its decision to place a temporary ban on Facebook, a move it says is aimed at tackling cyberbullying and online defamation.
The ban, which has not yet come into effect, received an angry response online after it was announced last week.
Communications officials are expected to meet with internet and telecommunications providers in Solomon Islands to discuss how they will block the world's largest social media network.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare told the nation's Parliament the ban was necessary in order to preserve national unity.
"Cyberbullying on Facebook is widespread, people have been defamed by users who use fake names, and people's reputations that have been built up over the years [are destroyed] in a matter of minutes," he said.
I think a piece of police reform we can do in America is to expand the use of CCTV cameras like they have in the U.K. The cameras are at least a small deterrent to crime. Less crime overall will lead to fewer police encounters which is something we should strive for. Pretty funny that it is in the best interest of society for police to interact with civilians as little as possible. Don't even make eye contact.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-23/ … y/12910786---The Solomon Islands Government has defended its decision to place a temporary ban on Facebook, a move it says is aimed at tackling cyberbullying and online defamation.
The ban, which has not yet come into effect, received an angry response online after it was announced last week.
Communications officials are expected to meet with internet and telecommunications providers in Solomon Islands to discuss how they will block the world's largest social media network.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare told the nation's Parliament the ban was necessary in order to preserve national unity.
"Cyberbullying on Facebook is widespread, people have been defamed by users who use fake names, and people's reputations that have been built up over the years [are destroyed] in a matter of minutes," he said.
Unrelated, I'd be all for extensive track and trace over universal lockdown. At this point it wouldn't bother me in the slightest to, for the sake of getting the pandemic under control, connect my phone with a computerized doorkeeper on my way into a business, or get eyeballed by a fever cam. Sadly that sort of thing would push more than a few blithering Americans into dangerous public freakouts. Thanks a lot, conspiracy media.
Two thoughts here:unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-23/ … y/12910786---The Solomon Islands Government has defended its decision to place a temporary ban on Facebook, a move it says is aimed at tackling cyberbullying and online defamation.
The ban, which has not yet come into effect, received an angry response online after it was announced last week.
Communications officials are expected to meet with internet and telecommunications providers in Solomon Islands to discuss how they will block the world's largest social media network.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare told the nation's Parliament the ban was necessary in order to preserve national unity.
"Cyberbullying on Facebook is widespread, people have been defamed by users who use fake names, and people's reputations that have been built up over the years [are destroyed] in a matter of minutes," he said.
Unrelated, I'd be all for extensive track and trace over universal lockdown. At this point it wouldn't bother me in the slightest to, for the sake of getting the pandemic under control, connect my phone with a computerized doorkeeper on my way into a business, or get eyeballed by a fever cam. Sadly that sort of thing would push more than a few blithering Americans into dangerous public freakouts. Thanks a lot, conspiracy media.
I'm OK signing into a restaurant with part of my name.uziq wrote:
that's been a de jure reality in china for ages and a de facto reality in the west.
tech companies have all the data and profiles rather than the government (officially, at least; the intelligence services have whatever they want from the tech companies).
tilting at windmills a bit with your fear of QR code sign-ins. they've been an absolute staple of track and trace programmes in taiwan and south korea, and used widely in europe too. if you want to move around during a pandemic, be in public places, enjoy public amenities, etc, then you need to register you were there.
your alternative is 'lock everything down and stop all international flights en masse'. how is that a better solution for anyone involved?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-24/ … s/12912158What happens to my data?
Many electronic check-ins are outsourced to registration platforms that are often owned by companies that deal in collecting data.
Some of these operate under opaque rules about how that information is stored and used.
Digital privacy advocates say it's often unclear what happens to the collected data and that some private companies may be vacuuming up huge numbers of names, emails and phone numbers.
There are concerns data could potentially be resold, used for identity fraud or to track a person's location and social groups, and employed in micro-targeted advertising for misinformation campaigns.
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Saw the date. Still shameless, of course she "moved up."uziq wrote:
that story is a few years old. the new one is that she's been appointed to lead a national scheme with no proper advertising/selection process. pure cronyism. people like that can fail upwards their entire life.
Great, so lets not give them any more data to 'lose' and I'd certainly prefer it if the Chinese govt didn't have it either.uziq wrote:
yep, i agree. data protection laws are there and the proper measures/protocols should be observed.
but even phone companies, which have a cornucopia of data and tracking information on us, routinely lose such data.
the bojo cretin appointed to lead our national track and trace system is the disgraced former CEO of a major cell company that ... lost reams of data.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 … ber-attack
I am pretty sure I fought a helicopter there in Half Life.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Sigh.
Good (or at least different) times ahead though, maybe?
Utah helicopter crew discovers mysterious metal monolith deep in the desert
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/utah- … index.html
Also, she still (made) a full year for two months work. Ugh.
All of those examples can be encoded data not readable by a clerk beyond a simple "yes" or "no." Some of that is information people would willingly tell a clerk on checkout. "Phone number," "John Doe, is this correct? OK you can insert the card now." is fairly routine and usually devoid of creepiness. What spooks me way more is unchecked, unmonitored spread of this life and economy-destroying virus in part thanks to some antique, quasi-luddite fear of a new kind of ID system which could be legislated into discontinuity later on.Dilbert_X wrote:
Plenty, like where I go, what I do and who I meet for starters, none of which I put on social media which I don't have.
Its not really anonymised if it includes your name, mobile number, email address and phone IP is it really?
