La Comtesse D'argent

so like last year we went to a community consultation meeting and talked about getting beaten up by the cops, getting sexually harassed by cops, getting misgendered and endangered by the cops during arrests, and dozens of other people shared their awful experiences with the cops are the other meetings. negative feedback about the police was consistent at every single community meetings, and so as a result the Pride Board asked the cops not to march in uniform. this is a small concession from the police, a symbolic acknowledgement of their trend of racist violence towards māori people and homophobic and transphobic practices. the cops said no, and pulled out of pride, triggering a corporate boycott of the event that completely gutted its funding. 

and people still said that what we did was unacceptable, that we are unreasonable and divisive and we’d ruined pride. how? by talking about what happened to us? by asking for a symbolic acknowledgement from the cops that they hunt some of us for sport? by offering a compromise between the most vulnerable people in our community and the people who beat and harass us with utter, utter impunity?

Damian Collins chairs the UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee; it was he who ordered the Parliamentary Serjeant at Arms to drag a visiting US tech executive named Ted Kramer out of his hotel to surrender his laptop to Parliament so they could see the internal Facebook documents that a US federal judge had ordered sealed.

Kramer is CEO of Six4Three, a creepy US startup whose Facebook app helped you find pictures of your friends in bikinis; when the app was neutered by a change to Facebook’s API, Six4Three sued Facebook and in the course of pre-trial discovery, they were given extensive internal documents from Facebook, which the judge in the case had ordered sealed. Somehow, Collins got wind of the fact that Kramer, his laptop, and the documents were all in London, and – having been spurned by Mark Zuckerberg, who repeatedly refused demands to appear in Parliament – saw his change.

Now, Collins has dumped a 250 page file, hosted on Parliament’s servers, which includes the documents from Kramer’s laptop and Collins’s summary.

The release comes despite a plea from Facebook to respect the US court order and not publish the documents.

The documents are incredibly damning. They show Facebookers at the highest level – up to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg – conspiring to trick Android users about how much data was being gathered by an update to the Facebook app; to give certain companies “whitelisted” access to user data beyond the access the company had disclosed to its users; to explicitly productize “friends” data (that is, to allow the trick Cambridge Analytica pulled, when getting a user to grant permission to their own data also allowed a company to access their friends’ data); to use the Onavo battery-monitor app to covertly gather data on which other apps users had installed; and anti-competitive targeting of partners’ apps.

Collins tweeted: “I believe there is considerable public interest in releasing these documents. They raise important questions about how Facebook treats users data, their policies for working with app developers, and how they exercise their dominant position in the social media market.”

This isn’t just one smoking gun, it’s hundreds of them. This is Facebook’s worst nightmare.

like what is that. That’s not what I wanted to convey at all. 

:P means

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LG is the only company that gets it at all