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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 176 points 2 days ago (5 children)

So...it's a fucking fine, which way less then he made by doing this. Until throw these fucks in jail this shit will continue.

[–] staircase@programming.dev 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In the next phase of the legal proceedings, due to begin on 4 May, the attorney general’s office will seek additional financial penalties and court-mandated changes to Meta’s platforms that “offer stronger protections for children”, said Torrez.

The design feature changes the state is seeking include “enacting effective age verification, removing predators from the platform, and protecting minors from encrypted communications that shield bad actors”.

Unclear how age verification would play out with their Digital Childhood Alliance efforts.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago

I promise you whatever happens it won't be good for the rest of us.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that shit is why I'm hesitant to endorse these big tech lawsuits

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Because you think they are conspiracies with goals to spy on you?

[–] msage@programming.dev 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The victims of child exploitation? Or the lawyers representing them? Or..? I’m not asking about vague general “save the children” stuff. I’m talking about this lawsuit and similar.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 day ago

They just established legal precident of e2ee as "harmful to minors"

[–] obre@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not the person you were responding to, but IMO it's the defense attorneys / legal department working to ensure that the legal outcome is as beneficial to the corporations as possible, even if they "lose". In this case the fine is a cost of doing business, not nearly enough to actually discourage malfeasance and the legal/ PR pivot to blaming encryption rather than their algorithms is something they hope will tee them up to be able to do even more massive surveillance in the near future.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

Spy on all of us, actually. And they're openly nazis now

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Until throw these fucks in jail this shit will continue.

Which is exactly why that won't happen. Our president is a pedophile. There's a whole network of wealthy pedophiles who no longer have an island. The pedophiles are in power.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

who no longer have an island

*who now have a different island that we don't yet know about.

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 day ago

antichrist mans bunker is in new zealand zucks in hawaii iirc

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

NO!!! NO NO NO NO NO!!! They can't just Jurassic Park this thing, and just have an infinate amount of islands!

[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Or it could because it's a civil case with no penal repercussions, because it's a bloody civil case. For them to go to jail, the DOJ would have to file criminal charges against Meta. They won't do that, not because of Pedo President, but because the DOJ has been too chicken shit since Enron to go after anyone else.

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know there's that jet tracker app?

It's not hard to figure out where the pedos at.

[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Y'all are gonna end up with a Pizza Gate situation. We need real leaders who will hire an effective DOJ to investigate and charge the monsters in a timely but just manner. We need a new viable party.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Do you leave out words on purpose? It's one thing to misspell something but I just don't understand how you managed to just not write one word in both of your sentences.
And just for clarity, those words are "is" and "we".

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Strangely I find myself doing this occasionally as well (although, not as bad). I sometimes wonder if it's cognitive damage from covid or perhaps the long term result of spell check / predictive word technologies. Either way it's somewhat concerning.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's a fucking combination of pre text making changes and Lemmy removing words after I post. Not sure if its the app I use or Lemmy in general. I keep forgetting to recheck the text after I post.

[–] randompasta@lemmy.today 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fine based on % income of the company.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 2 days ago
[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Until throw these fucks in jail this shit will continue.

You think? Send Zuckerberg or any of these billioraires to jail.

1.They will use their lawyers army to be moved to a for-profit prison. 2.They will buy that prison. 3.They will make changes inside, turning them into a resort for them, but an absolute shithole for all other prisoners, guards, etc.

[–] moustachio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or they won’t be able to do any of that with their assets seized and they’ll serve their time. No reason to make up some nonsense defeatist scenario.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

I wasn't serious. More of a satire about the absurdity of our "modern" world.