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[–] 144 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 101 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Like I feel your point, but also the ads definitely have a lot more identifiable information (target audience, keywords, sectors, etc.) they can use for detection & removal vs random posts using algospeak and other evasion tactics

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    Honestly, when I still used it I saw a ton of obviously malicious and illegal ads. After reporting them I'd get the message that they followed their guidelines.

    A lot of leaks have shown that they know their products are incredibly harmful, but that changing it would hurt their bottom line.

    Meta is an evil company filled with careless people.

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  • [–] 78 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    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

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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.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    15 years ago was when I stopped using facebook. It had the potential to be a great way to organize and maintain social connections, but instead it was a toxic environment promoting the most annoying shit, particularly when posted by frequent users trying to broadcast their lives to the world. Simultaneously it did a great job of hiding anything I'd actually be interested to know. Fuck knows how bad it has become in the meantime. It was striking how much it seemed to bring out the worst in people, and equally remarkable how so many people just wanted to wallow in that.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    I hung on all the way to Covid. And holy shit did the world get to be its most toxic when we were all quarantined, locked in our homes, alone with our nasty thoughts, with only the internet as our outlet…

    With only the nastiest and the worst of our internal thoughts to sustain us, that’s when I hopped off the crazy train. When all that anyone had to offer was the most toxic and acidic of thoughts, that’s when I said “no more“. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… Deleted… thank God I never got on TikTok.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (7 children)

    Some of us have no choice. If I don't have social media, record labels won't sign my music. I cannot afford to pay someone else to maintain it for me.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah ok but you're not scrolling your wall for hours a day, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Yeah for some reason I find it easier to avoid infinite scroll with FB than reddit! I know, that's like mentioning Voldemoort round here.

    Not sure if any Lemmy-ers still use reddit, they fucked it again (removed /all). It's rapidly turning into a copy of meta, feeds are now curated by algo rather than votes :(

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Thanks for the links, will check them all out. But from a brief squizz at the bbc link... can I just point out that these are all VERY established artists, with established fanbases. None of these will be interacting with people online anyway, already using a social media manager to do all their posts etc.

    There's no point making music that nobody knows exist, and unfortunately streaming / social media are the main avenues for reaching new fans these days.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Oh but facebook is all but a tech company. It's designed and controlled by "business" idiots. All the Silicon Valley is like that. Just a shadow of what it was, back then these STEM people were running the show.

    But it seems these stupid companies start to realize that now it's Product Manager all the way down, they can't produce much, beside stupid planning. Why do you think they're so hell bent in believing their slop machines can replace devs?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Why would they do that!! 😡

    😂

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