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Post by JohnFen »

carlosjobim wrote: post #173
jnovek wrote: post #161

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Literally the second paragraph in the article: “An ABC NEWS Verify investigation into several controversial Australian pages on Facebook has found that some are benefiting directly from social media monetisation programs run by Meta.” They are paying him for his content. Funding him, if you will. Virtually every company pays people to do stuff and then profits off of the stuff those people do.

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That's not the definition of "funding". "Funding" is setting money aside for a specific purpose. When that money is spent doesn't enter into it.

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Post by wpietri »

carlosjobim wrote: post #171
acdha wrote: post #157

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There’s a big difference between fiction when the viewer knows it’s make believe and when it’s presented as factual. Nobody is committing genocide because they saw a violent movie whereas Facebook shares responsibility for at least one recognized genocide and a number of smaller scale events where the company amplified hateful content and was very slow to take it down. A key distinction here is choice: I don’t accide…

You certainly accidentally start listening to gangster rap when it's played on TV, on the radio, or on the auto playlists from streaming services. Or you wouldn't turn on your radio by accident, but then you wouldn't open Facebook by accident either. Gangster rap has inspired a lot of murders and other violent crime world wide, I don't think anybody would deny that anymore. So if we treat it as harmless entertainment…

> Gangster rap has inspired a lot of murders and other violent crime world wide

What's your evidence for this? You seem to be making the claim that without gangster rap there's a bunch of violent crime that wouldn't have happened. But it seems more plausible to me that the bulk of that crime is due to the drug trade and other social and economic factors, and that gangster rap is just the musical expression of what's already going on.

And I'd expect the same to be true of, say, country music. Are you also going to claim that people who listened to a lot of Johnny Cash were more inclined to shoot people, possibly in Reno, just to watch them die? Did many Merle Haggard fans turn to crime because of him?

Personally, I listened to plenty of Ice T, NWA, and Snoop. Sometimes I still do. I have yet to become a stick-up kid or pack a 9 mil. Should I be worried? If there's some sort of threshold dosage, I might go over it at any time.

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Post by leonidasrup »

nixon_why69 wrote: post #57
leonidasrup wrote: post #48

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CCP is keeping tight control over social media platforms first and foremost to prevent spreading information which could topple CCP. "Last month 60 popular celebrity gossip sites were closed overnight for corrupting "core socialist values," and a new regulation released in May requires all online news portals to be managed by Communist Party-sanctioned editorial staff." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-40896…

No, they actually do have a paternalistic drive to keep things healthy and pro-social above and beyond some Bond villain stuff. I mean, yes, you also can't get away with organizing an opposition, but they really do care about social cohesion and good family values above and beyond that. (Also, one should always note that the BBC is state owned when they write articles full of invective like this).

The priorities of CCP are suppressing opposition first and social cohesion and good family values second. If you don't like state owned BBC, you can read for example non-state owned Guardian about the state of Chinese media landscape.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/dec/15/jimmy-lai...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/22/hong-kong-auth...

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Post by lokar »

mhax wrote: post #184
asdvsadnvs wrote: post #169

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Terrible take. Trying to moral gymnastics your way out of taking responsibility for who you work for. If you're working at meta it's unlikely to be your only good option. Yes, the janitors get a pass.

I doubt the janitors actually work for Meta

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Post by dylan604 »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #232
wpietri wrote: post #55

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

And of course publish it. Logically we might expect Meta to get into selling narcotics next. "It is not Meta's role to police drug use"

Meta has already been okay with drug use by allowing people to place ads and other posts clearly promoting drug use/sales. IIRC, 404 Media did an article on this

What's the latest social media platform position on being labeled a publisher? Aren't they against that?

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Post by NikolaNovak »

scarab92 wrote: post #236
HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #232

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And of course publish it. Logically we might expect Meta to get into selling narcotics next. "It is not Meta's role to police drug use"

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Out of curiosity, which part of the world are you in?

While agreeing that every side and compass orientation has conspiracy theories and ragebait, here in North America the right / Conservatives are foaming-at-the-mouth livid at the (real, Perceived, or mixed) wokeness / communism / liberallness of "mainstream media".

In this neck of the woods, the sentence "right has learned to tolerate different opinions they find offensive" isn't even hilariously wrong, it's tragically, despairngly, painfully bizarre :-(.

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Post by wpietri »

scarab92 wrote: post #236
HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #232

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And of course publish it. Logically we might expect Meta to get into selling narcotics next. "It is not Meta's role to police drug use"

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Ah, so you agree that a "white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links" is accepted as a right-wing voice these days? That's how it has looked to me since Charlottesville, but it's always nice to get it confirmed by people with different perspectives.

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Post by scarab92 »

lokar wrote: post #240
scarab92 wrote: post #236

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At least you don’t have to use the default feed. You can make your own.

The default feed is orders of magnitude more visible than the cherry-picked low-follower-count users that formed the basis of this article.

There’s a tremendous double standard here. The offensive right wing content is something you’d have to explicitly search for, whereas the offensive left wing content is front and center.

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Post by [deleted] »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #232
wpietri wrote: post #55

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

And of course publish it. Logically we might expect Meta to get into selling narcotics next. "It is not Meta's role to police drug use"

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