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Look I'm a broken record at this point (if you check my history), but I feel like _someone_ has to say it. Lets treat big oil like big tobacco. Big coal. Big f
by aplummer 7y ago
Look I'm a broken record at this point (if you check my history), but I feel like _someone_ has to say it.
Lets treat big oil like big tobacco. Big coal. Big fast food. Big soda. These things _literally_ kill so many people every year and while Facebook is surely attributable to some deaths as a medium, it has at least some social utility.
Why are there so many articles about facebook and not soda!
- malvosenior 7y ago> Why are there so many articles about facebook and not soda! Because soda doesn't threaten Bloomberg or The New York Times' business model.
- Funes- 7y agoExactly! While I don't think that Facebook has any utility that stands out or is exclusive to it--as the parent comment asserts, this was my very first thought when I read the headline. It seems to me that they are up in arms now that FB's reputation has decreased substantially and their true motives aren't as flagrant.
- blub 7y agoThere are plenty of articles about sugar, soda is just a specific instance of that. Every one focuses on topic that are important to them: global warming, poverty, etc, etc. You can focus on soda, others will focus on privacy, I see no problem with that.