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Have they shot themselves in the foot though? As long as the money they save from not employing people to manually review cases is less than the profit they're

• shiroiuma 3y ago
  >Have they shot themselves in the foot though? As long as the money they save ... then a few false positives is fine for them. Yeah, I've made this point before, just today in fact about a Netflix discussion (and I like to bring it up with Microsoft too when people complain about Windows...), and agree: it seems like these companies can get away with some horrifically stupid and customer-hostile behavior while remaining very profitable and dominant. Of course, unlike Netflix, Facebook isn't primarily funded by its users, but rather by advertisers (who are other businesses, not consumers), so I'm not sure if that's better or worse here; it might be worse for Meta. I guess time will tell: bad publicity like this isn't going to help them. >but I imagine that most people here already have plenty of reasons to dislike them. True, but again, most people here aren't customers of Facebook, they're just users.
  • b112 3y ago
    True, but again, most people here aren't customers of Facebook, they're just users. No, instead, they're the product.
• rightbyte 3y ago
  > Have they shot themselves in the foot though? Shooting them self in the foot implies instant effect. A better idiom would probably be something like "they are cutting the branch they are sitting on".