Everyone is affected by what facebook does, whether you registre with them or not. Facebook uses public resources, it grabs and sells data even using shadow profiles for those that never registred themselves, and manipulates the public to make even more profit. The public has a right to know how exactly it does that. This company has created a system that is very hard not to be part of without loosing out on public participation. With that, it successfully aims at performing the function of state institutions and the press. It should be held accountable and scrutinised at least as much as thes

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The case Cambridge Analytics has proven the need for change.

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Control or Freedom

Who can control us humans? The companies, Klaus Schwab (Leader World Economic Forum) the state or should we humans decide our fate ourselves? For more freedom and independence for all living people and for a real democracy, I am not a sham democracy (Noam Chomsky). Citizens' parliaments and tax justice can guarantee peace and freedom and justice, everything else is just the dictatorship of a few over the many

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If I had my way all internet platforms would have to be licensed by the government and if they contravened the licence rules in any way I would have them shut down. Lets face it non of the platforms are a priority to live your life and for most of us life would be much happier without them.

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I would very much plea for openness, open debates, so we can have real discussions and real science taking place. I am disgraced about what fear mongering is happening in the entire world these days... this has nothing to do with the truth or striving for the truth.

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algorithm

Data mining algorithms are (as every algorithm) intellectual property. It is core of informatics business and it is major capital of the firm. It is not possible to enforce private society to publish their capital and make it available freely to its competitors.

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If you want to reduce the power of Facebook, Google, and all the other companies that live on clickbait and ad dollars, which is at the root of this horrendous trend of fake news and misinformation spreading like wildfire, then you need to fight for laws that dictate that at least x% of revenue must come from subscription fees. In other words, force Facebook at Co to adopt a paid service / subscription business model, not a free but paid by ads model. That would be the game changer, everything else is just cosmetics.

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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, etc. All have horrid business practices. Exposing their algorithms will only show us what we already know: irresponsible data mining, targeted advertising, selling data...

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Big Tech are private companies acting according to their policies and within the national laws. This petition is manipulation in itself.

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Reading from email the description behind this petition, I consider it entirely is useless. I don't see the reason why algorithms need to be revealed in first place. To create your own social media better than Facebook? What stops you to do it now? To stop manipulation and information filtering? How about improving education within the country first? This petition has no positive means for humanity and is a waste of time and resources. Stop wasting your and other times.

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Destroying individual rights in the name of public interest is the MO of every faschist. Facebook does not owe you anything, you are not mindless sheep that are influenced by scary algorithms. Be responsible, make up your own mind, and protect freedom. There are many alternatives to Facebook that are open-source. Alternatively, we still have enough freedom so you can start your own platform.

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DSA

It's not an open letter, if you don't open it. So we should agree a letter we don't know. If knew the text I can dicide whether to subscribe it

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I am against!

I really LIKE! a lot that I get the content that fits my interest. SAVES ME SOOO MUCH TIME! time is our greatest value:). we should treasure it and make most of it. this data protection laws should be urgently get LESS restrictive. I don't have anything to hide!!! I live an honest life. please use my data ! Anyone who is against is- what do you have to hide?? being a scientist in medicine for 20 years- this GDPR laws have created so much obstacles. We could have been so much more efficient and productive in analysing data and help to save health outcomes, global disease burd this

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