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Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta

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#112

If we were normal society company like Meta would be shut down and its CEO would be in Hague and prosecuted for crimes against humanity

If we were normal society companies like Meta would be shut down before their CEO could commit crimes against humanities

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

#113

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Which part was wrong? That meta is not paying settlers? Or that the whole point of setter policy is to take the land and the method is to enable settlers to mistreat original population as much as possible?

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

#114
post #74

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.

> Why anyone still engages with these platforms is totally beyond me.

Because it provides a form entertainment, low hanging entertainment. All designed to grip you in your weakest fronts.

Map out what triggers a person visually. Feed it in to a LLM model and on the evil scale, you can start exploiting those who get angry based on whatever content.

Anger is one of the easiest trigger points in form of media. Broadcast a opposite view of an individual or a group. Downvotes and Upvotes are the primitive form of this and if you lack the emotional intelligence (thick skin) to handle the flack, you end up turning on emotions.

   Tabs are superior to spaces and Python is basically JavaScript with indentation.

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

#116

Why do the richest and most powerful humans, who have seen all of the world and its wonders, and can go anywhere anytime, and get all the luxuries our civilization has to offer, and never have to struggle for anything in their lives.. want to make it worse?

Because, often, that's how they became the richest, most powerful humans. If your goal is to have money and power, and you have more today than yesterday, the world for you didn't get worse.

After a point what difference does it make?

When you literally have a billion dollars what difference does 1 million more make?

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

#118

If we were normal society company like Meta would be shut down and its CEO would be in Hague and prosecuted for crimes against humanity

If we were normal society companies like Meta would be shut down before their CEO could commit crimes against humanities

when facebook started out and was actual social network, for a short period of time it was arguably a net-positive for the society though…

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

#119
post #98
post #74

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 ACTU…

I had a similar experience logging in to FB to delete my account which was inactive for almost a decade. It’s legit was like the movie Idiocracy. Casino vibes, over stimulation, people saying stupid thing, trying to sift through lots of garbage to find the thing you’re looking for.

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

#120

I think this is a bit misleading. It sounds to me like the creators are creating and uploading the content, and then that is getting monetised on the platform? The title makes it sound like meta is commissioning the content? I don't think that is the case here? Or is it? Directly commissioning someone to create it is pretty wild.

Twitter/X has actually paying some of those creators. They're changing that program in September.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2023/07/13/twi...

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