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Meta found liable in child exploitation case (www.theguardian.com)
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... while they feign child protection to avoid costs

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[โ€“] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That was then. Now is not 20 years ago. You can't just take a platform like Facebook 20 years into the past and expect the business model to still function. It's like saying that people used to buy newspapers so banning NYT from having a website is not a problem, they will just sell newspapers again.

[โ€“] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

If Facebook as it is today is the only profitable way for it to function, it shouldn't exist.

That's not the case of course. A disenshitified Facebook is possible, and would be profitable too, it just wouldn't make literally all the money. It just wouldn't exploit you and literally every single way it could manage. Zuckerberg and the other shareholders would have to tolerate lower profits, but they wouldn't have zero.