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If you think that manipulating people is evil, then ads are evil and hence Meta and Alphabet are evil. If you think that some manipulation is evil, then it's a
by darthrupert 5y ago
If you think that manipulating people is evil, then ads are evil and hence Meta and Alphabet are evil.
If you think that some manipulation is evil, then it's about how they manipulate and on which issues. Perhaps manipulating people to buy something is ok but manipulating them to harm the society (something which Meta is clearly guilty of) is not. Then these companies could turn good if they just turned down a lot of their profit. Which of course won't happen because as companies their prime directive is to make money.
If you think that all manipulation is ok then your opinion should be dismissed.
- fulafel 5y agoI think expecting nothing wrt ethics, aka the "companies are amoral and will never let ethics affect profit making" meme is too cynical. It starts off as a criticism but we then accept and normalize the idea. That benefits the amoral corporations. There are better outcomes if hold them to society's moral standards and to their own goals and claims they make to the public or shareholders. Those organisations are made up of people that mostly aren't that amoral, after all.