{"id":50241,"date":"2018-04-02T09:24:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50241"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:06","slug":"haggart-why-not-nationalize-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/04\/haggart-why-not-nationalize-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"HAGGART: Why not nationalize Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blayne Haggart, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock, <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/why-not-nationalize-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote a piece recently published in the National Post<\/a> about nationalizing Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Haggart writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Facebook\/Cambridge Analytica scandal is fast emerging as a watershed for our increasingly digitized society. For the first time, how to regulate personal data has become a mainstream public issue, so it\u2019s important that we understand fully all the options available to us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In deciding what to do, the negative reactions\u00a0<\/em><em>of some tech pundits to the calls for individuals to #deletefacebook are instructive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Somewhat counter-intuitively, they argue that it\u2019s irresponsible and ultimately ineffective for people to #deletefacebook. On its own, this argument is overstated. The loss of even a small number of influential Facebook users (relatively wealthy, North Americans) is a signal to Facebook and governments about dissatisfaction with the status quo. That\u2019s not a bad thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/why-not-nationalize-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blayne Haggart, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a piece recently published in the National Post about nationalizing Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[3445,5513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50242,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50241\/revisions\/50242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}