You had an argument until you brought up KOSA. That bill is absolutely brutal and had it passed, this administration would have yet another weapon to clamp down on free speech and terrorize citizens.
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ItIt's frustrating because it's possible to attack companies like Facebook while fully endorsing Section 230. That law states that companies aren't liable for things that users post... Unless they become aware of bad content and choose to ignore it.
And Facebook has shown its hand here. They've admitted they have moderation tools, through their pledge to crack down on anti-genocide opinions. They want to have it both ways, but hopefully people see through their BS.
This bar-less chainsaw is entirely too dangerous, doesn't address any existing needs, and the so-called inventors lied about how many people have gotten hurt by it!
So you're going to either have them install a bar, which is a time-proven solution, or you're going to force them to stop selling it, right??
Oh, no. No. No, no, no, no... God no. We're gonna create a database that lets us predict if you're going to have an abortion by connecting your fitness data to which ads you look at the longest and cross-referencing your driving habits.
The only way to outlaw Meta’s dangerous and egregious behavior is to pass legislation
Or we could just exercise existing legislation? Like perjury?
All four sections carry a penalty of imprisonment for not more than five years, although § 1001 is punishable by imprisonment for not more than eight years when the offense involves terrorism or one of several federal sex offenses. The same five-year maximum penalty attends the separate crime of conspiracy to commit any of the four substantive offenses.
Even 1 year in jail should be a good enough incentive, if only he could not buy his way out.
This article starts out by observing that Zuckerberg committed enough crimes to be sent to prison under existing law and then argues that the only solution is more laws?
How about we just start making rich people subject to the same set of laws as everyone else?
No. Fuck the KOSA, it's the equivalent of burning down your house to get rid of a cockroach infestation.
Meta should be liable for their algorithm, no more, no less.
I am curious how you could liable for an algorithym. All advertising and entertainment try and capture marketshare and retain people.
How exactly would you define that as illegal?
I am having a hard time not just saying stupid people do stupid things, but of course that is the definition of a child, so it's the parents that should be held responsible... For wanting to keep using something?
Dont get me wrong, using a tool to leverage weaknesses of the uneducated and disadvantaged is shitty as can be, but that has always been true.
Education and knowledge that this shit is doing what it is designed to do seems like the only long term solution.
Section 240 protects you from users posts, but not necessarily from promoting them above others algorithmically. You could find them liable for their prioritization choices on the timeline over one that just displays things chronologically. It’s been down time and time again that the display is not a chronological one to increase engagement. That is an editorial decision that should be liable for.
I wholeheartedly believe that anyone who's amassed more than 10 million dollars in this country is doing something unsavory to get it - we shouldn't blindly trust anything they say about anything. Mark has orders of magnitude more than that; everything he says should be considered a lie until proven true from multiple sources.
Or, crazy idea, how about not using their products? And maybe a little bit of parenting while we are at it.
Passing laws to save the kids always becomes another way to increase surveillance and harm citizens.
Maybe just fine him 40 billion dollars and put him in prison for lying to congress.
I hope somewhere in this, someone points out that you cannot bookmark your friends feed. You can bookmark marketplace, or any other part of the site.
When you do manually navigate to your friends, you get pushed back to the infinite slop feed after almost every action.
They did this deliberately so you can't use facebook to keep tabs on your friends. You know, like it was originally built for.
It was originally built to creep on college women, so creeping on its users more generally now is just a continuation of exactly what it was built for.
They invited the target in, and realigned the cameras accordingly.
You have to let the algorithm decide how you should be creeping. Shh, sleep now, and scroll, and click.
meta is the AOL coaster of 2020s
Everybody just lies to congress now.
To, in, and about.
congress lies to congress. it amazes me they constantly fold to arcane parliamentary rules that nobody understands.
It's 2026. Anyone that still actively uses Facebook is a moron despite whatever reason they have for using it.
but, but, marketplace abloobloobloo
Shut up.
If the USA had a functioning Justice Department, lying to Congress should have put the Zuck behind bars.
Behind the bastards podcast had enough material on him for three episodes. Mark is a bad dude.
Zuck lies every time he is before congress. As long as he's not held in contempt and INCARCERATED for lying under oath, who gives a fuck.
Hold up, you're telling me Zuckerberg isn't a good person?
I am shocked that the guy who made a website to fuck college girls is a bad person.
Highly relevant video of what sort of culture Zuck metastasized in at Harvard
Highly relevant video of what sort of culture Zuck metastasized in at Harvard
One, holy shit. And that was over twenty years ago: there is zero possibility it's gotten any better since.
Two, I love this woman's blunt honesty. Her take on all of it is fantastic, especially how the "they're missing something behind their eyes" was so accurate. It's just horrible how she came to have that knowledge.
Three, read the transcript if you can't sit still for the whole thing, but either way try to make it to the end. After she gets done with her own personal experiences, she's all,
So anyways, fuck Harvard. Fuck these institutions. Fuck their respectability. They're crucibles for rapists and pedophiles. And the most powerful people on earth are the scum of the fucking earth. And we need to take back our power from them.
But the difference is now you know exactly why she says that, and with the power and force of her entire being. Shit, I would too.
Is he considered a good lizard person?
an android , so no.
lizard android? or... just android?
like data android, combined with lore, but not with emotions.
I did more skimming than reading of the linked article because I don't care that much abou tthe topic, but I just want to say: We need more of this journalism. THIS is what journalists should be doing so much more of. Calling out lies and specifically this is a great format for that.
True to a point - the article justifies KOSA as a solution to this. We need a whole lot less of that, and a whole lot more holding power accountable. Both the government and the billionaires.
“I don’t know why They ‘trust me. Dumb fucks.” - Zuckerberg once
Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.
Pfffffft. Well, he's not testifying before Congress most of the time, so I'm sure we can trust him then.
What an interesting organization: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/tech-oversight-project/
It would have been so easy for influencewatch to write that in a neutral way, but they couldn't help themselves from editorializing their very clear opinions into it, almost to the extent that it reads like an industry shill managed to get some edits in.
Probably so. You take what you can get.
It's always the fucking money in the end. Paid for that doomsday bunker in Hawaii.
Like it's the first time. Bravo USA.
We're living in post-truth times. Zuck is a large part of the reason why.
page formatting is atrocious on dispatch
The only thing you can do to punish this fuck is by not using any of his current and future spyware.
It is unwise to trust the words of anyone with something to lose by speaking truth or something to gain by speaking a lie.