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0 pointsdmurray1y ago0 comments

> It's either intentional, which would be puzzling and unsettling, or it's a bug which has gone unnoticed.

I've long believed that a large part of technological evil comes from bugs which were introduced innocuously, but intentionally not fixed.

Like, your ISP wouldn't intentionally design a system to steal your money, but they would build a low-quality billing system and then prioritise fixing systematic bugs that cause errors in the customer's favour, while leaving the ones that cause overbilling.

This could easily be the same on Facebook - this got swept up in a false positive and then someone decided it's not a good one to fix.

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sixothree1y ago

There's a rumor that an unnamed ISP did exactly that - overcharged a large portion of its customers due to a software bug. Then decided to not fix the issue instead relying on customers to call support and have the charge fixed.

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0 pointsdmurray1y ago0 comments

> It's either intentional, which would be puzzling and unsettling, or it's a bug which has gone unnoticed.

I've long believed that a large part of technological evil comes from bugs which were introduced innocuously, but intentionally not fixed.

This could easily be the same on Facebook - this got swept up in a false positive and then someone decided it's not a good one to fix.

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sixothree1y ago

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