{"id":2981,"date":"2019-10-14T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2019-09-21T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T13:23:43","slug":"do-omething-ueful-intead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2019\/10\/do-omething-ueful-intead\/","title":{"rendered":"Do $omething U$eful In$tead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Instead of paying fines to &#8220;the Treasury,&#8221; how about we do something useful instead?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebooks-privacy-agreement-ftc-does-little-to-constrain-it-2019-7\">Facebook recently paid a $5Billion fine for violations of this or that<\/a>. Lots of fussing about the &#8220;pain&#8221; felt by Facebook and the pain felt by those who were violated in this violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us consider, for a moment, the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$5Billion is a lot of money to me and most of the persons I know. $5Billion may not be a lot of money to Facebook or the US Treasury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why, however, does the money go from Facebook to the US Treasury. Did they drive a big truck full of money from Facebook headquarters to the Treasury building in Washington D.C.? Did one line of a spreadsheet here and a corresponding line of a spreadsheet there change? What really happened?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is an idea: have Facebook repave the roads in all the National Parks and put up signs stating such: &#8220;We did you wrong. As penitence, we are repaving these roads.&#8221;\u2014Mark Zuckerburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compare the two actions. What is more meaningful? What is more practical? Why do we modify the spreadsheet instead of repaving the roads?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Instead of paying fines to &#8220;the Treasury,&#8221; how about we do something useful instead? Facebook recently paid a $5Billion fine for violations of this or that. Lots of fussing about the &#8220;pain&#8221; felt by Facebook and the pain felt by those who were violated in this violation. Let us consider, for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,233,29],"tags":[322,234,151],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-america","category-government","tag-accountability","tag-america","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}