Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Faces Congress

WATCH [CC] - United States lawmakers demand changes at Facebook after data breaches, why you keep using Facebook, even if you hate it.

WASHINGTON -- Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg called his billion users "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data, giving up privacy.

Facebook is desperately trying to mend its damaged reputation following the continued fallout of a massive data scandal.

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Alongside London-based elections consultancy Cambridge Analytica, the social media giant is at the center of an ongoing dispute over the alleged harvesting and use of personal data. The allegations have heightened concerns over whether such data was then used to try and influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the Brexit vote.

Ahead of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's appearance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, CNBC takes a look at exactly how the tech behemoth ended up in the midst of a media firestorm... Read more at Facebook-Cambridge Analytica: A timeline of the data hijacking scandal.

Vox: What happened with Cambridge Analytica highlights this perfectly.

Before many people join a network, it may not be so useful. But the more people join, the more useful it becomes. That’s the network effect. Facebook is a step beyond that - it’s the network effect on steroids.

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This is what makes facebook so great - it knows everything about you! - and what makes facebook so awful - IT KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. And while its network of 2.13 billion monthly users doesn’t pay any money to use the core service, Facebook makes plenty of money - millions daily - (buy providing advertisers access to that user data). And everyone on the site agreed to this when they signed up.

How to see if Cambridge Analytica got your Facebook information: Facebook is now alerting users if their data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica. If your worried if your private data, including your public Facebook profile were shared, you can check easily. HERE's HOW.

How Does Facebook Affects Your Life ?
Bad Lip Reading - "Interrogating Zuckerberg"

Do you trust Facebook? Here's 10 reasons not to trust Facebook from Alltime10s.

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With over 2.13 billion people using Facebook, the social network has become the superpower of the social media landscape. With with power comes responsibility and Facebook has unfortunately been responsibly for some pretty shady revelations.

Deaf community considers to #DeleteFacebook for the safety, privacy and security, or maybe you are still a dumb fuck as Mark Zuckerberg mentioned it.

Good luck to y'all.

SOURCES:
Alltime10s
CNBC
PBS NewsHour
VOX

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Comcast Data Caps Make Life For Deaf Difficult

Deaf News: Comcast's data usage caps may be a hindrance to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community.

PHILADELPHIA -- It’s hard to find a Comcast Internet customer who doesn’t loathe the idea of the company’s forthcoming data usage limits, but usage caps may prove particularly painful to one group: the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Comcast’s data usage caps for its Internet customers will expand to eight more cities Tuesday. The caps limit users to 300GB of data monthly, with the alternative of facing fines or paying a steeper rate to get unlimited access.

And unlimited access is especially crucial for many in the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community who use Video Relay Service, or VRS, to conduct phone calls. The calls are facilitated using a sign language interpreter on the other end - and that requires an Internet video feed.

“It’s really important to the Deaf community because it provides visual communication,” said Dan Hoffman, the American Sign Language and Deaf Studies program coordinator for Utah Valley University.

VRS does not use that much data - 5-10 megabits per second, according to Sorenson VRS, one of the leading VRS companies - but that adds up when you're also using your connection for normal browsing.

“Hearing people can call using their phones any time they want to…they don’t have any cap like that,” said Hoffman, who is Deaf and also a Comcast customer.

For Hoffman and others in the Deaf community, equal access means that if hearing people can communicate without time limits using telephones, that the Deaf community ought to be able to also. He said rather than pay Comcast's steeper rates for unlimited use, many Deaf people would simply transfer services if a cap were in place.

The Federal Communications Commission does have protections in place to ensure the adequate provision of telecommunications services to the Deaf community, but from a cursory read, it is unclear if capping VRS use is an Americans with Disabilities Act violation. The communications agency was not able to comment on the story.

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Dropout Rate Among Mainstream Deaf Students

A documentary film about dropout rate among mainstream Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in the United States.

WASHINGTON, DC -- Students with hearing loss attending general education classrooms have been reported to experience difficulties in social skills and relationships. This 5-year longitudinal study examined the social skills and problem behaviors of students who were Deaf or Hard of Hearing, and who attended general education classrooms. Data were obtained from classroom teachers and students themselves.

The mean Social Skills and Problem Behavior scores (Social Skills Rating Scales; Gresham & Elliott, 1990) were within the average range and normally distributed each year. The average change over 5 years in social skills and problem behavior was not significant.

The most consistent predictors of social outcomes were the students" classroom communication participation and participation in extracurricular activities. Implications for placement, intervention, and further research are discussed.

SOURCE.

Benefits to students with disabilities: Mainstreaming Schools on Wikipedia.

Familiar Stories of Mainstreaming Schools:

Alone in a Hearing World shows true to life scenarios of a young Deaf boy growing up in a hearing world. With family members who can't communicate and continuous misunderstandings by his teachers and coaches, he is forced to live in a world of isolation. However, when he pleas for his Mothers understanding and falls short, he ends up in the only place he seems to find acceptance.
Deaf Awareness: Alone In A Hearing World.

"Alone In The Mainstream" (best seller book for the teachers) - A Deaf women remembers public schools - Gina A. Oliva in which a book is a part of education for hearing parents to understanding with Deaf children in the mainstream schools.
Alone In The Mainstream.

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