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Why are people always pretending there is no difference between being tracked by Facebook, and by your government? Facebook’s goal is mostly to make money. Fac

by hcks 4y ago

Why are people always pretending there is no difference between being tracked by Facebook, and by your government? Facebook’s goal is mostly to make money. Facebook will not put you in jail, or fine you. As bad as you think these companies are, they never committed war, crimes or genocides. There is a massive difference between being tracked by states (who have a monopoly on violence and terrible track records) and advertising firms.

starkd 4y ago
I think the Twitter Files blew the lid off on the illusion that corporations are private in the sense they get no direction from the government. Matt Taibbi found the FBI to be deeply embedded in Twitter. Don't think they are not at Facebook as well.
- realce 4y ago
  BLEW THE LID off of a practice that every single communications providers ever created in America since the FBI existed has done, you mean?
  - starkd 4y ago
    True. But not nearly to this scale and ease.
    - blitzar 4y ago
      "The twitter files" while cherry picked to manipulate the narrative to attempt to show the opposite simply demonstrated that corporations reject the state requests as often as they oblige the state.
Devasta 4y ago
Facebook is implicated in facilitating genocide in multiple countries.
gonzo41 4y ago
Please read this. Facebook is starting to rack up it's own bodycount https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...