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Re: Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta

#91

It is not only rage bait. They like the new corporate fascism and that its followers believe that the right wing will fix the economy. Maybe they have some romantic ideals about the 1930s, where Schacht fixed the economy for Hitler with a form of quantitative easing. But that scheme became unsustainable around 1938. The difference is that back then the powerful needed people. The current Silicon Valley "elites" want…

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Re: Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta

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post #55

> "it is not Meta's role to police offensiveness" Just to fund, transmit, amplify, protect, and profit from it.

The egregious part is the amplification part. Profit derives from that. Transmission and protection are neutral and they are necessary for all information especially if there is a history of freedom of expression; though of course some governments and others like regulating permissible expression.

Re: Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta

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Why anyone still engages with these platforms is totally beyond me. They are bad for your soul, bad for the nation, bad for the world.

i recently downloaded it again after nearly a decade to use marketplace to buy a bike for my wife. Got the bike and deleted the app. but my god opening it up was hell. the interface on mobile is just....stressful. super cluttered, shit all over the place with notifications and things to see. first post i saw on there was someone i used to be friends with but havent thought about in years just blatently reposting ACTUAL racist shit... bought a bike in one day and deleted the app once again. horrible experience aside from the nice old dude who sold me the bike lol

Re: Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta

#100
This is a tired rehash of the same panic we had after 2016. In short: “Oh no, if we allow unrestricted communications, people may turn this into political advantage!” No shit. That’s the point of free speech.

As always, the only solution is twofold: (1) end the targeted advertising business model (for everyone, not just Meta) and (2) acknowledge and address the underlying social and economic problems affecting average people. But of course the establishment has no interest in pursuing either one of these. And so popular anger will continue to build.

I’m sure that shutting down the few release valves for that anger is a great solution.

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