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Facebook ban account after posting an article to ask backlinks

by Makio

This is a true story of the bad experience of Facebook.      Army of fake Zuckerbergs march on EU parliament ahead of the CEO hearing, Avaaz, Flickr   It started when my friend (say John) asked for backlinks to a newly developed website via his facebook.  Here is what he described the experience.   I can’t remember the wording of the post very well and I don’t have access to my account anymore   As far as I remember, I asked on a Facebook group for a “link-building” project.  I didn't mention any monetary reward for a link. I asked them to contact me for more details of this project at the end of the post.   Some minutes later, I got a notification from Facebook itself and they said that my post violates their community standards.   It was surprising and I could not understand what would be against their standards, but I was going to remove that post.    I was just on my way to remove that post, suddenly the page is suddenly reloaded automatically and Facebook is asking to upload my own photo.   Why!?…
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Trashtag - The Day Social Media Became Self-Aware

    Maybe Socialism works after all…  As you've all probably guessed by now, I'm a Star Trek geek amongst my myriad fandoms. But up until now, there's been one aspect of Star Trek that I have shaken my head at, thinking it was too unrealistic. Well, OK, besides the transporters, warp speed space travel, and Kirk is getting lucky with all those green-skinned space babes.    Beyond the advanced technology, which justifiably may or may not happen someday - never say never! - the one aspect of the Star Trek universe that always nagged at me is the economy of Starfleet. See, thanks to technology like the replicator, humans in this future exist in a post-scarcity utopia, wanting for nothing, and hence not motivated by money. So why work? Libertarian Capitalists have seizures at this thought.  The answer, we get explained to us, is that Starfleet members are all volunteers, just motivated to join for the pure idealism. Which is the part that loses me when I think of all those red-shirts who beamed down…
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We Should Be Looking At The Robber Barons of Yesterday to Protect Against The Tech Barons of Today

The six largest companies on the planet are now technology-based. Like the industrialist of the late 19th century, they disrupted their industries and changed the way they worked. In the process, they repeated the same destructive decisions from the past.       Businessmen or Swindlers?   While it wasn’t a new term — it dates back to the Middle Ages and used to describe feudal warlords — the name stuck on business tycoons in the 19th century. Originally, they were portrayed as positive self-made men that helped build the nation. Their image changed for the worse as the century ended and critics and newspapers painted them in a different light. There was a certain truth to the phrase thanks to some captains of industry, especially those that controlled the railroads. Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker along with other shareholders of the Central Pacific railroad company gained the rights to build the western portion of the Transcontinental Railroad. They received subsidies and land grants to…
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