• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today
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    7 hours ago

    Are normal people still on FB? I thought it would be all conservatives by now. If only conservatives are getting ripped off, then no harm done. I only care if actual humans are being harmed.

  • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    Maybe facebook should be responsible for the monetary damages they create on society. + fines for negligence.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    The fact that something like Facebook exists without public oversight or control is absolutely insane … if your national public rely heavily on one source for the majority of the information and communication, what do you think is going to happen? Is like saying that there is only one company that owns every newspaper across the country and they are allowed to self regulate themselves.

    It’s like Joseph Goebbels said about media and communications ‘Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.’

    Except this time, we’ve allowed multinational corporations at the keyboard to play the music that we all dance to

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    18 hours ago

    As someone that had an elderly mother that was scammed multiple times because of sinister bullshit like this, Facebook can’t burn to the ground fast enough, and fuckface Zuck needs to swing from the gallows.

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      20 hours ago

      Just less evil. There is no way to ethically acquire that amount of money. Most people don’t truly understand how much money $1 billion USD actually is. And the only way to achieve it is to exploit others, make money off of investing in the exploitation, etc.

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        17 hours ago

        Read his Wikipedia page. I think you’ll come to find he really is a rare good guy. No evidence I see of making his $$ off the backs of slave-wage labor.

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          17 hours ago

          Doesn’t matter. There is no amount of work or contribution to society a single person could perform in a single lifetime that would be worth anywhere near $1 billion. Maybe it was another person or company who did the exploitation itself, but he knowingly profited from that.