Eagle-eyed readers might have noticed that they can now “like” individual Wonkette posts, via the Facebook! Then other people will see that you have “liked” them, on your “wall,” and then shun you for reading smut while you’re supposed to be working. But most of you are probably worrying that interacting with any so-called social media sites will immediately result in you being sodomized by Internet predators. Who will save you from such a fate? CHUCK SCHUMER and his privacy crusade, it turns out!
Chuck Schumer is VERY CONCERNED about this whole “like buttons on everything” business, it turns out! He and Al Franken (who totally has more Facebook friends than him) are asking the FTC to set up some rules about sharing private data between Web sites, mostly to make it so people have to “opt in” to things, which they won’t do, unless the “opt in” clauses are confusingly worded, which of course they will be. This will ruin all of Wonkette’s plans to leverage the social media graph to build buzz for our brand, and also use your credit cards to buy nice things for us and our families, so we urge you to oppose these onerous “big government” regulations.
Schumer also announced that his Facebook page is “very boring.” Aw, don’t be so hard on yourself, Chuck! I’m sure you get all sorts of intriguing notes from your constituents, like, uh…
ATTENTION GOLDMAN SACHS: One earnest, long-ish note from you on Schumer’s Facebook and this financial services regulation thing is DEAD. [USA Today]
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How did Chuck “opt in” to that shirt?
Can I just “LIKE” the picture? He kind of looks like my Mom at the block party.
Chuck needs a “manzzier”.
First of all Mr. Wyman you could help by writing a note to explain your note.
Clearly, this issue of facebook likes becoming open to the public calls for some VERY IMPORTANT LEGISLATION. But will it do anything to protect the sacred privacy rights of our similarly vulnerable Reality-teevee-show stars???
Sweet rainbow lanyard. A gift from Lindsay?
[re=565973]pirate king of the Jews[/re]: He looks like the Drum Major for a Gay Pride parade! Take a look at that cool rainbow whistle strap!! “You say sweet – I say meat, you say blow – I say TWEET!!”
Chuckles the clown. Anyone else getting wingnutty bold font?
[re=565988]freakishlystrong[/re]: A “related article” from like three years ago had an unclosed bold tag in its headline. I FIXED IT.
WHY IS EVERYONE SHOUTING IN SHOUTY BOLDFACE?
Oh. Nevermind.
Looks like someone needs the bro.
Charlie’s got impressive man boobs.
I have no idea what the hell that means at this particular juncture.
Nice moobs, Chucko.
Wait, is this why I’ve been getting a surge of spam from the TruckNutz company lately?
Personally, I’d rather face the unintended consequences from well-meaning but non-optimal privacy regulations than the current real consequences of the complete lack of privacy regulations on our corporate overlords.
[re=565996]F*T*S*[/re]: Damn.
I like a guy who, after washing something red with the whites, just says “fuck it, I’ll wear it anyway.” They do sell pink shirts for men, by the way…IN EUROPE.
Speaking of email-type stuff, and sort of O/T but not really: Down here in Knoxpatch TN we are all anxiously waiting as the jury deliberates for the second day in the federal court case of the UT college kid/son of a Memphis Dem state legislator. It’s the kid who easily got into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account and changed her password, then posted it on Facebook or whatever. It’s been an exciting time for all, what with the Snowbilly her own self and even Bristol flying down last week to testify about how horribly disrupted their lives were and so forth. The kid faces up to 50 years in prison, which most of the redtards down here hope he gets. That is all.
But…but what if I wantto be found by sex perverts?
YER TAKIN’ AWAY MA FREEDUMBS!!1!1
Boobs…I need more man boobs Chuck!!!
That is a huge advertising real estate on that forehead. Why there’s not Dunking Donuts billboard on it I dont know.
Chuck got his moobs endorsed by BoingBoing after agreeing to a face off with Phasebook over them selling their scribers personal poop.
Don’t worry, non-geeks, Bob Wyman is one of those people who uses big fancy words to make it seem like what he’s saying is smart, when it’s actually dumb.
Here’s the translation into Amerocan Englizh: “Wait before you legislate! I want to make websites able to talk to each other and share all my online shit everywhere, ensuring that any data theft/overshares would be spread as far and wide as possible, mostly since I don’t ever put anything interesting or provocative or personal on the intertubes. And if I do, no one seems to care. Also because people are too stupid to just create a new profile on whatever the hot new Twatter of the month is, a phenomenon I call ‘lock-in’ because I don’t remember Friendster, also that is why we have to have privacy-destroying standards.
Is there some way I can screw up your legislation? I have lots of experience.”
With those moobs Chuck could turn me gay.
[re=565985]Red Zeppelin[/re]:
The lanyard was a gift but he had to earnthe mardi gras beads.
[re=566025]assistant/atlas[/re]: There’s also something a bit ironic about Facebook complaining about the possibility of monopolies.
“Open standards for data portability” means “now someone can steal all of your personal data, not just some of it.”
What I love about FB is that you can’t even opt out, because they change the defaults every month and opt you right back in. All in the name of synergizing their monetetization or something.
Bob Wyman sounds like your typical manageroid to me.
With that shirt and pose, I think he’s going for a very different crusade…
[re=566053]Simba B[/re]: That reads like a typical feature spec written by/for management. Then some developer has to grope through the haze of buzzwords to write actual code that does something.
lol…that picture. Pink shirt, man boobs, hands on hips….lol!
[re=566053]Simba B[/re]: Sounds like his URL isn’t his only tiny attribute.
[re=566053]Simba B[/re]: When probed by Denise on the MGM vs Grokster lawsuit, Bob clarifies that online businesses or websites like PubSub should not entice it’s users to violate the law.
Hmmmm.
And that’s some hot thinking on his part. It takes someone who’s been in the biz since DEC to advise us not to break the law.
[re=566048]artpepper[/re]: This is why I don’t join anything on FB — in order to play freakin’ tic-tac-toe you have to let the app share all your data. I had no idea that idle distractions were so information-intensive — but I’m just thrilled to learn when my one of my friends is looking for a tire iron in Mafia Wars.
Chuck looks huffy. And puffy.
Bob Wyman really needs to get laid.
Wonkette can invade my privacy anytime it so desires. Just sayin’.
I have never been more turned on!!
Worst. Rave. Ever.
Yet, I was the first LIKEr ever. Go figure. But it’s because I love anything Josh writes, including grocery lists and doodles on the back of old receipts. Speaking of which, Josh, I missed you on garbage day this week! Love, your stalker.
[re=566025]assistant/atlas[/re]: That’s how I read it.
[re=566005]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
But who will protect us from Chuck Schumer?
Jesus Christ. In my day, you had to put a little effort into finding an NNTP server so you could get sodomized by predators. Kids today….
I object strongly to government being involved in religion (In God we trust? Fuck you), sports (let ‘em do all the steroids they want, or let the team owners and players unions sort it out) and the internet, which is doing just fine without the government sticking their oar in, thank you very much. Also, television content, song lyrics and anything whatsoever to do with culture.
BTW, that photo on his facebook page could probably use an update.
Wet T-shirt Chuck or GTFO!
I am the only non-elderly, non-teabagger in the country that does not have a FB page. I am very proud of this, too.
But, nobody knows any of this because I do not have a facebook page. Paradox!
It is amazing to see that so many people who know so little about me are so willing to say such nasty things about me… Anyone who suggests that I am not a strong supporter of privacy rights is simply ignorant of the facts.
If you’re actually interested in more about what I feel on this subject and what motivated my note on Schumer’s page, consider reading this:
http://www.google.com/buzz/bobwyman/HUQpRburcQK/Oh-My-It-seems-like-a-comment-I-wrote-on-Sen
bob wyman
SHOW YORE TITS! **throws beads**
Google already has its privacy-sucking tentacles in nearly every site imaginable, through AdSense, Analytics, embedded YouTube videos, and the like. Kinda silly for Schumer to be suddenly pursuing Facebook over what Google’s already been doing for years now.
[re=566005]RoscoePColtraine[/re]: Pink is for women; “salmon” is for men.
BTW, I’m guessing Chuck is about a 44B.
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