{"id":399130,"date":"2019-03-12T08:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T07:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mark-zuckerbergs-privacy-manifesto-a-brief-for-intensifying-internet-and-social-media-censorship\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T08:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T07:08:48","slug":"mark-zuckerbergs-privacy-manifesto-a-brief-for-intensifying-internet-and-social-media-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mark-zuckerbergs-privacy-manifesto-a-brief-for-intensifying-internet-and-social-media-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s \u201cPrivacy Manifesto\u201d: A brief for intensifying Internet and social media censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s \u201cPrivacy Manifesto\u201d: A brief for intensifying Internet and social media censorship<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Kevin Reed<br \/>\n    <br \/>12 March 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On March 6, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a statement entitled \u201cA Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking\u201d on the Notes tab of his personal page. Widely described as a \u201cmanifesto,\u201d the document is a brief for ending the mass public exchange of ideas on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, as well as across the Internet as a whole, under the guise of \u201cprotecting privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The manifesto begins with Zuckerberg emphasizing that he is \u201ctaking positions on important issues concerning the future of the Internet,\u201d not just social media. He says that he is \u201cworking openly and consulting with experts across society as we develop this.\u201d In other words, Facebook\u2014which has grown to 2.7 billion users across the globe and has a Wall Street value of nearly $500 billion\u2014is working with consultants at the highest levels of the tech industry and US intelligence establishments to develop its plan.<\/p>\n<p>The core of the new strategy is the idea that an open and public social media environment\u2014where all users can freely communicate with one another and share each other\u2019s posts\u2014must be replaced by a structure of one-on-one private communication between individuals. As Zuckerberg wrote, \u201cOver the last 15 years, Facebook and Instagram have helped people connect with friends, communities, and interests in the digital equivalent of a town square. But people increasingly also want to connect privately in the digital equivalent of the living room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A second aspect of replacing the \u201ctown square\u201d with the \u201cliving room\u201d is dispensing with the Facebook timeline feature of stored posts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/03\/12\/zuck-m12.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s \u201cPrivacy Manifesto\u201d: A brief for intensifying Internet and social media censorship By Kevin Reed 12 March 2019 On March 6, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a statement entitled \u201cA Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking\u201d on the Notes tab of his personal page. Widely described as a \u201cmanifesto,\u201d the document is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}