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Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
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Re: Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
#152The same company intentionally driving minors towards this content (despite claiming to care about them) is also lobbying in secrecy for requiring all of us to scan our ID and face in order to use our phones and computers. Their stated reason? Child safety. Their actual reason? You can figure that out.
To be fair, they're just an evil corporation making lemonade out of lemons. I'm sure they'd be happier pushing porn and nazism to hundreds of millions of underage users, but if certain governments want them to write all that bunk code to verify everyone's ID, they might as well make money off the data.
Re: Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
#153The same company intentionally driving minors towards this content (despite claiming to care about them) is also lobbying in secrecy for requiring all of us to scan our ID and face in order to use our phones and computers. Their stated reason? Child safety. Their actual reason? You can figure that out.
Meta is like one giant cancer that grew a few small tumors of benign[1] nature, like some of their efforts in open source and open research (React, Llama, etc.). [1]: I could be wrong thinking those are benign.
Everything consumer facing from meta is like a toxic waste hazard. It makes me sad seeing people stuck on those platforms.
Re: Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
#154The same company intentionally driving minors towards this content (despite claiming to care about them) is also lobbying in secrecy for requiring all of us to scan our ID and face in order to use our phones and computers. Their stated reason? Child safety. Their actual reason? You can figure that out.
My guess: to discriminate whether traffic is from a humam or bot to improve ad delivery metrics.
Most sites are not going to implement this themselves.
I think they're in prime position to become a key broker of identity in the same way that a lot of people already log in with their meta or google account to unrelated websites.
They become very entrenched and get a ton of data that way.
As more and more people essentially lock themselves in with these identitybrokers tho I imagine it has a very stifling effect on speech tho. Imagine getting banned from those.
Re: Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
#155The same company intentionally driving minors towards this content (despite claiming to care about them) is also lobbying in secrecy for requiring all of us to scan our ID and face in order to use our phones and computers. Their stated reason? Child safety. Their actual reason? You can figure that out.
My guess: to discriminate whether traffic is from a humam or bot to improve ad delivery metrics.
Aren't they incentive to treat bot impressions as real?
Re: Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
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LLM slop
Re: Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
#157The same company intentionally driving minors towards this content (despite claiming to care about them) is also lobbying in secrecy for requiring all of us to scan our ID and face in order to use our phones and computers. Their stated reason? Child safety. Their actual reason? You can figure that out.
> Their actual reason? You can figure that out. This is unfalsifiable. Just say what you think it is explicitly.
Isn't this conversation, not publishing scientific hypotheses, theories and findings?
If so, it is customarily permissible to use rhetoric and sarcasm to more strongly emphasize a point. Or, to leave the conclusion as an exercise for the reader.
Re: Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
#158It takes 7 clicks to turn off ads that promote eating disorders. Thats enough proof.
Re: Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
#159Maybe I'm just getting old and cynical but, while I think current social media is bad for children, I'm very suspicious of the current international agreement that it's time to take action, especially with all the ID verification coming from multiple avenues
That's because we should be regulating the social media industry rather than regulating social media users.
Unfortunately, social media users don't have billions of dollars to spend on lobbying and related activities around the world.
Re: Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
#160The same company intentionally driving minors towards this content (despite claiming to care about them) is also lobbying in secrecy for requiring all of us to scan our ID and face in order to use our phones and computers. Their stated reason? Child safety. Their actual reason? You can figure that out.
Meta is like one giant cancer that grew a few small tumors of benign[1] nature, like some of their efforts in open source and open research (React, Llama, etc.). [1]: I could be wrong thinking those are benign.
Facebook was the Eternal September of the Web. Netiquette died when it was made generally available, as did the culture that spawned it.