The thing that surprises me about the facial recognition news is that I was expecting it to be the other way around. For meta to outlaw it. The reason for the

The thing that surprises me about the facial recognition news is that I was expecting it to be the other way around. For meta to outlaw it. The reason for the re-name is to separate Zuck and his new project from the toxic reputation that facebook has. So the logical thing to do is to get meta to outlaw facial recognition, as a first indication that it's going to do business differently from how facebook was operated. Instead this is really interesting. Zuck has 'moved' from facebook to meta, and apparently, plans to bring his complete lack of ethics along with him (or to put it generously, his ignorant view of the world). Could we see the next evolution in facebook to be a social media platform that the company has decided is the past- and therefore they can afford to run it more ethically and be more considered about their abuse of their users. Become the warm and fuzzy that some parts of microsoft have become. Meanwhile Zuck moves to the "metaverse" which is him and a few others desparately trying to carry out the exploitation he succeeded with in the heyday of Facebook? Or to put it another way - it would be genuinely surprising if Zuck has the self-awareness to realise that Facebook's brand can be rehabilitated but that his brand is what's poisoning it.