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I feel especially sorry for the dumb fucks who stuck around on Meta services long enough to notice the change.
But, at the same time, I don’t feel sorry for them, because, 15 years ago, I was screaming for them to get off the service, warning them of all the horrible things that were to come, and they ignored me.
So they got what was coming to them. As a result, the amount of pity I have for them is limited.
Meta today began removing ads from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media
. . . Thereby proving the absolute ease and facility with which content can be rapidly identified and removed when that content removal serves the corporation, and thereby actively helping to prove the plaintiffs' cases for them.
Now that's meta.
Kind of related: if you use Gmail and Android check your spam folder! You might have a class action email informing you about the suit against Google. I had one in my spam folder, have seen others saying the same
Jfc you weren't kidding.
Taylor v. Google or just search class action
Same here. Had it in spam. Tell your friends and maybe we can turn that into another class action. :)
I greedily await my $0.18!
The strategy to fuck with a class action lawsuit is to fuck with the lawyers leading the class action lawsuit.
... This is how you get another class action lawsuit, which is comprised entirely of lawyers.
Jesus Fucking Christ, these people are idiots.
Not that I think anything Facebook does is good, but doesn't this just make sense? They're not required to provide ad space to anyone, so why would they provide it to people who want to harm their business? If I was the evil CEO of an evil corporation, I would do the same.
Yes, but it also hurts their case when they're demonstrating clearly that they can filter out ads they determine to be harmful.
I hope it leads to them losing another class action about scams. They claim it's too hard to regulate ads when there are so money, but clearly they can filter if they choose to.
I hope all of this leads to a huge swing in popular opinion that data surveillance has the same potential as home surveillance, meaning that by monitoring the data of the average person across platforms — you can reach the same conclusions as you would by taking tenancy in their home to monitor their livelihoods. Then, I hope we revisit the constitutional amendments and ask ourselves whether a modern interpretation of the 3rd would yield that protection of the house (I.e., “no soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner”) translates to protection of the data. Then I hope that we can interpret Engblom v. Carey to mean “soldier” applies to any executive authority. Finally, I hope we can all start paying a lot more attention to Larry Ellison — the man who is consolidating a whole lot of private healthcare data and top-secret defense contracts right now while the world remains focused on the Iran war.
I know, I am asking for a lot.
They’re already monitoring us in our homes. What do you think Alexa was for? Why do you think every smart appliance connects to the cloud instead of a local hub now?
They're ok with their ads harming society, democracy, human rights and civil liberties. But they're removing ads that might give their victims the means to fight for the harm they caused them.
Remember the time Signal ran an ad campaign on Facebook that told you what info Facebook gave them on you and got banned?
A couple months ago a story came out of a court case that they would happily keep running ads that were identified as scams; they would just increase the advertising costs for the accounts running those ads. The more reports, the higher the price until they reach a limit to ban them. Basically if their users are getting scammed, they want a bigger cut.
The fact that what this fucker does is still relevant is beyond me. It means there are people still using his dumpster fire of a website. And that's what's beyond me. Eventually I will not consider them as victims, but accomplices. No I don't care about your excuses and I will not take questions.
Corporate malpractice doesn't seem to register with a certain percentage of the population. Not unless they experience direct harm from it.
Perhaps because those people would do the same if they were in Zucks position.
It reminds me of a study I read a long time ago where students from certain fields had different interpretations of what's construed as lying or cheating. I remember they found that business students have a much lower bar for what's considered right and wrong.
STEM students had a much higher bar. These days I find it hard to believe tech would fit among that group anymore.
Yea tech got corrupted with the high software salaries. A friend of a friend is a software engineer, really smart guy, really nice and fun to be around from the few times I met him. But I lost a lot of respect for him once he told me he works for Samsung's ad department. I'm sure he makes a crap load though.
They use Facebook marketplace. Apparently it’s better than democracy.
Bold strategy.
Let's see if it pays out for them, Bolton
Why would they do that!! 😡
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