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This is Meta claiming in their internal communications that they plan on doing it while people are distracted with other concerns. It isn't really "rhetoric",
by lamontcg 7mo ago
This is Meta claiming in their internal communications that they plan on doing it while people are distracted with other concerns.
It isn't really "rhetoric", they're talking like they believe this actually happens, this is strategy.
And I tend to agree with them that things like attention and political capital are ultimately finite resources.
I've found that the "we can do two things" and "we can walk and chew bubblegum" line of argument to be simplistic and just wrong (and pretty incredibly patronizing). I think the world works exactly the way Meta thinks that it does here.
It might blow up and turn into a Streisand effect, but more often than not this kind of strategy works.
Much like how people think they can multitask and talk on the phone and drive at the same time and every scientific measure of it shows that they really can't.
- Forgeties79 7mo agoDamn you’re right. I got so annoyed at the headline I didn’t even read the article so that’s on me
- dormento 7mo agoYeah its more like "quick, its friday night and someone just got bombed, toggle that feature on"
- mullingitover 7mo agoIf I were Meta's lawyer I would advise them to definitely put into writing how they are fully conscious that this is wrong.
- phil21 7mo ago> I've found that the "we can do two things" and "we can walk and chew bubblegum" line of argument to be simplistic and just wrong It's painfully obvious to me society cannot do two things at once. You focus on one shared goal as a culture or everything falls apart very rapidly - as we are seeing today. It's why a common external "enemy" (e.g competitor, nation state, culture, whatever) has historically been so important. The shared goal can be complex in nature, which requires many disciplines to come together to achieve it via a series of many parallel activities that might look like they are all doing something random, but it's all in the service of that singular shared goal. This holds true from my experience at the national level all the way down to small organizations.