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It’s not false that there is a societal problem that is not unique to Facebook. But that sidesteps the question of what responsibility they have as a company w

• sneak 5y ago
  > “Privatize the profits, socialize the costs” is not sustainable. The church (as well as the integrated state) has been doing it for thousands of years. I think treating the general population as a somewhat renewable resource to be mined/harvested has a longstanding tradition and history of being one of the most sustainable things in human history. Depending on how tax money is spent (i.e. in ways that benefit a subset of society, rather than all taxpayers) this is perhaps the most common and longstanding tradition we human beings have.
  • geodel 5y ago
    Indeed. Many think if it sounds like feel-good rhetoric then it must be true.
• joshenberg 5y ago
  Exactly. Running 'the world's largest vaccine information campaign' rings hollow when it's really a mitigation effort. That's akin to saying that the Valdez tragedy and subsequent clean-up made Exxon the top environmentalists of '89.
• jensensbutton 5y ago
  > whose profits are, at minimum, powered by that problem I don't think it's established that that's the minimum. Facebook usually argues that it's a small minority of their content and I don't see any evidence against that (it just gets a lot of scrutiny). It seems like if you magically removed all the "bad actors" they'd make just as much money.