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> Shame on Facebook for enabling children to communicate with each other about drugs. Did you read the article? It has nothing to do with children messaging ea
by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
> Shame on Facebook for enabling children to communicate with each other about drugs.
Did you read the article? It has nothing to do with children messaging each other about drugs.
The investigation is about people and companies (including Canadian pharmacies and criminals) using Facebook to publish content and Ads for prescription drugs they can't legally sell and counterfeit drugs that are presumably dangerous/illegal - ads and public content. Facebook is being accused of not checking if an advertiser can legally sell those drugs or just allowing blatantly illegal sales pitches
- vasco 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children Protecting children, together with fighting terrorism, are the two most often invoked reasons for removing privacy protections in the modern world. They were just being tongue in cheek about this being more encroaching on privacy rights in the name of fighting crime.