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Imagine that instead of simply leaving a site that refuses to show you content you actually want and respect your rights, you spend effort and money on a length
by deadbabe 2y ago
Imagine that instead of simply leaving a site that refuses to show you content you actually want and respect your rights, you spend effort and money on a lengthy legal battle to force them to change.
It’s like if a drug dealer keeps mixing your cocaine with fent, you force them to give you the good stuff instead of just trying to end your coke habit altogether.
I think you must be very privileged to fight these kind of battles.
- bookofjoe 2y agobest HN biography of the day
- barbazoo 2y agoThey’re dependent so they clearly can’t make rational decisions. It’s not even their fault, the system is set up against them.
- simion314 2y agoNow imagine all the other drunk adicts getting the clean shit because this one individual, how many lives were saved because one person. For sure other drug dealers are upset now and will complain why would a person fight them instead just buying from other dealer or just stop using/
- AlecSchueler 2y agoImagine criticising the addict in this situation rather than the dealer, or questioning the system that brought about their dependency. And aren't we meant to use our privelege to help others? I'm not sure when privelege became a dirty word.
- luqtas 2y agonot all users are addicts
- Zambyte 2y agoNot all addicts admit it. Also the analogy that they were responding to was in regards to come / fentanyl.
- AlecSchueler 2y agoThe common aspect of both products is their addictiveness.
- teucris 2y agoIt’s far too reductive to compare social media to a drug. Social media participation, for better or worse, is a part of today’s society. I would say you must be very privileged to be able to avoid it. Those of us who can, need to fight to protect people’s rights with something that is all around us, permeating our lives. I think a better comparison could be a supermarket. Just because they sell cigarettes and alcohol doesn’t mean you can just not go there. You still need groceries.
- zipy124 2y agoThe difference becomes in that you never ultimately need to use the cocaine, however given lots of buisness' run almost exclusively on meta platforms like facebook/whatsapp/instagram, it is sometimes neccessary to use for things like customer support. Add in the fact that you can contact your MP and such on it and it stands to reason there is regulations. This is the same reason there are laws around radio stations, TV channels and newspapers. Either the state runs these forms of media, or we allow corporations to run it under the agreement that they do so under a decent set of rules in exchange for being allowed to profit.
- snapcaster 2y agoI'm a simple man, i see Meta (and associated privacy violaters) take an L and i'm happy
- worsethanhitler 2y ago[flagged]