This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
They should have been put out of business when they started manipulating elections in 2014/2015 but it's never too late
Good
But, I'm more excited about the possibility that here in Australia they might allow you to block random crap coming up on your feed you didn't follow. As every right wing Nazi idiot is posting rage bait and bullshit to get attention on it
"I know Facebook is a Nazi org, but I'll just keep generating money by continuing to use it and hope they allow me to block Nazi shit. "
I operate meetup events. My choices are meetup which is overpriced, or Facebook. Unless you have any suggestions
Also, the benefit of this stretches far what I do. It's the easily corrupted dckheads who won't be absorbing this stuff on a daily basis.
The reality is, I believe a huge factor in all the shit going on is Facebook at the moment. Laws like this are highly beneficial
I appreciate that you’ve made an effort to find alternatives. I refuse to use Meta products and it’s so frustrating when promoters act like I’m a freak for even asking if they post announcements anywhere other than IG
Yeah unfortunately when Bending Spoons buy out companies, development typically slows or even stalls and the subscription costs go astronomical. They've done the same with Komoot, Evernote and a bunch of others.
Even their website summarises how shit they are once you wrap quotes around the right word:
We acquire and “improve” iconic products. Supported by dozens of proprietary technologies and an elite team of engineers, scientists, and designers
lol honestly it wouldn't surprise me if they secretly get paid a boatload by a competitor to buy out a company, when the other company couldn't buy out their competitor due to monopoly and antitrust law. "Hey can you buy evernote and make it super shitty it's eating into our market share. We'll pay you [x] and give you 50% of every subscription by someone who uses the evernote migration feature over the next two years"
Isn’t there some third strike rule and Facebook gets locked away for life now?
Not when they can flash the capitalism card.
Meh. Who cares about these monetary judgements, they don't change anything. I want to see metaphorical heads roll (people jailed for this.) Fines have no consequences whatsoever.
Yes, another 50¢ in class action settlements! That'll show em
New Mexico leading the way!?
*New America
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