Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "France May Day Protests & Iranian Oil Embargo: VICE News Tonight Full Episode (HBO)" video.

  1. The reason why Facebook can keep lying about privacy straight faced is because of everybody's short term memory on the subject. Encrypting messenger? Dude, Messenger was supposed to be encrypted way back when WhatsApp encrypted their messages, 3 whole years ago. I dunno how people can forget stuff like these while being so worried about current shifts in the platform. The company has already publicly promissed this crap over and over and over again.. it's all purposedly vague because they know they can't deliver it. Facebook and Google plus few other messaging services did this encryption in a half assed way (opt-in) back then because ultimately what Facebook really wanted was to keep having access to most of messages so that they could implement stuff like ads, and keep collecting private user data. This is just the same old marketing strategy, going against regulation, and yet again just following trends that companies like Apple set up. This is also why both founders of WhatsApp took off the platform - because Facebook kept insisting on collecting data on WhatsApp and eroding privacy for the service. WhatsApp implemented obligatory service wide encryption 3 years ago. All messages are already encrypted, they just don't encrypt metadata which is still valuable and collectable information. Currently, the only chat app that fully encrypts everything is Signal. One of the WhatsApp founders took off and started the Signal Foundation, which is focused on privacy efforts, that's how much you know Zuck is lying. If a company really has intentions of making platform more private, they are gonna list the exact steps on how they are going to accomplish it - not just bullshit crap like "encrypting messenger" which is something that is already a reality. But this is exactly why there is no real shift towards privacy. Because people still don't get it. It's just buzzwords to fool people. It's like a politician coming out on campaign saying something like - from today on, slavery is illegal and we'll make a law that forbids violence against minorities! Like, dude, it's already illegal, it's already there. The problem is not making new laws. The problem is enforcing it.
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