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MengyiTuSecondEssay 3 - 03 Feb 2020 - Main.MengyiTu
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Power Conferred with Authentication | | | The ability to force individuals to justify their trustworthiness with high assurance, to whichever third parties may ask, is a position of true power. It is extremely dangerous to embed this power of defining standards and policies in a concentrated group of revenue-seeking organizations such as Facebook. If Facebook is not neutral enough, how long would it take until decisions are being taken to exclude individuals or groups, until information is being captured that can harm people and lead to repercussions, or until the right to have a passport would be too expensive for some citizens? And if they define the standards, who will control them? And how will competitors be able to enter the market? | |
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< | During the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on the 17th of Julylink, Facebook’s crypto chief David Marcus, was asked if people who have been banned from Facebook’s social network like Milo Yiannopoulos and Louis Farrakhan would be allowed to use Libra. The answer was: “We haven’t written the policy yet,” indicating that the rules of entry will be written by Facebook. But what business does Facebook have in setting public policy anyway? | >
> | During the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on the 17th of July, Facebook’s crypto chief David Marcus, was asked if people who have been banned from Facebook’s social network like Milo Yiannopoulos and Louis Farrakhan would be allowed to use Libra. The answer was: “We haven’t written the policy yet,” indicating that the rules of entry will be written by Facebook. But what business does Facebook have in setting public policy anyway? | | | Markus was asked how Facebook will make money from Libra. Marcus said Facebook will benefit in two ways: First, the 90 million businesses on Facebook’s platform will be able to make transactions with one another. Marcus predicted the increased commerce on the platform would help small businesses expand and ultimately spend more money on Facebook ads. But more importantly, second, “Facebook would offer more services in partnerships with banks and other organizations, from which it would expect to make money.” This second business stream seems to be where Facebook will become the authentication provider for many more businesses.
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< | In the offline world, identity is a sovereign right traditionally only controlled by governments. Handing this right over to a handful of selected private parties with a revenue-driven target could lead to biased decision-making and illegitimate sharing of information. Following the argument offered by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezlink: if money is a social good, then we should finally determine that the right of individuals to establish and maintain multiple, unlinked identities is a social good. And a social good should be managed by all participants from the private and public sector, including the individuals themselves. | >
> | In the offline world, identity is a sovereign right traditionally only controlled by governments. Handing this right over to a handful of selected private parties with a revenue-driven target could lead to biased decision-making and illegitimate sharing of information. Following the argument offered by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: if money is a social good, then we should finally determine that the right of individuals to establish and maintain multiple, unlinked identities is a social good. And a social good should be managed by all participants from the private and public sector, including the individuals themselves. | | | | |
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You're not making links quite right. Look at the rendered page, what you've written, and the documentation. To help, I fixed the first one.
This is an excellent draft. You could go one step further, to consider the Chinese Communist Party's way of merging identity, trust, and social control. That's another important outcome to consider. A continuum from Xi Jinping through Sundar Pichai to AOC. That's a force shaping human history from here to 2120.
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You are entitled to restrict access to your paper if you want to. But we all derive immense benefit from reading one another's work, and I hope you won't feel the need unless the subject matter is personal and its disclosure would be harmful or undesirable. |
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