<story><title>Facebook chooses profits over people</title><url>https://peoplesworld.org/article/facebook-doesnt-care-about-you-tech-giant-always-chooses-profits-over-people/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>These headlines naïvely miss the point. The problem isn’t Facebook, a private company, seeking profits. The problem is its deeply-entrenched psychopathy and pathological record of lying [1].&lt;p&gt;And it really appears to be a Facebook problem. Instagram for Kids wasn’t the fever dream of a deranged Instagrammer. It was pushed by a Facebook implant [2].&lt;p&gt;I don’t know if being in proximity to Facebook’s leadership corrupts people. Or if they select broken folks to start with. But it’s a top down effect, and the main reason I lobby for breaking up the company.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;i&gt;They lied to the FTC [a]. They lied to WhatsApp and the EU [B]. They created an Oversight Board and then, wait for it, lied to it [c].&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;—[a] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;cases&amp;#x2F;182_3109_facebook_complaint_filed_7-24-19.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;cases&amp;#x2F;182_3109_fa...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;—[b] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;euobserver.com&amp;#x2F;digital&amp;#x2F;137953&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;euobserver.com&amp;#x2F;digital&amp;#x2F;137953&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;—[c] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;facebooks-oversight-board-says-company-wasnt-fully-forthcoming-on-treatment-of-high-profile-users-11634817601&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;facebooks-oversight-board-says-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Adam_Mosseri&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Adam_Mosseri&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ACS_Solver</author><text>I would even say it&amp;#x27;s simpler, and the problem is Mark Zuckerberg specifically. He&amp;#x27;s deeply immoral, and continues to do what Facebook does for power and money. I understand, on some level, the excitement - he&amp;#x27;s a computer nerd who came to control an organization that is more powerful than the majority of the world&amp;#x27;s countries. Zuckerberg controls the platform that is the primary means of communication for hundreds of millions of people, and in terms of power he&amp;#x27;s almost on the level of G7 leaders, just not accountable to anyone.&lt;p&gt;Ethically, however, Zuckerberg seems to be on the level of murderous dictators, or human traffickers, or others that are among the very worst. I think he&amp;#x27;s willingly inflicted huge damage on modern Western society, and has certainly been the most harmful user of Internet technology.&lt;p&gt;Facebook as a whole is just a reflection of Zuckerberg&amp;#x27;s values and policies, which is not surprising for a company that&amp;#x27;s ruled by one person (as in CEO and sole majority voter). It&amp;#x27;s also not surprising that a company does unethical stuff to increase profits (and we have enough examples from Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Google, just about anyone), but I&amp;#x27;ve firmly come to believe that Facebook is in a category of its own.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook chooses profits over people</title><url>https://peoplesworld.org/article/facebook-doesnt-care-about-you-tech-giant-always-chooses-profits-over-people/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>These headlines naïvely miss the point. The problem isn’t Facebook, a private company, seeking profits. The problem is its deeply-entrenched psychopathy and pathological record of lying [1].&lt;p&gt;And it really appears to be a Facebook problem. Instagram for Kids wasn’t the fever dream of a deranged Instagrammer. It was pushed by a Facebook implant [2].&lt;p&gt;I don’t know if being in proximity to Facebook’s leadership corrupts people. Or if they select broken folks to start with. But it’s a top down effect, and the main reason I lobby for breaking up the company.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;i&gt;They lied to the FTC [a]. They lied to WhatsApp and the EU [B]. They created an Oversight Board and then, wait for it, lied to it [c].&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;—[a] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;cases&amp;#x2F;182_3109_facebook_complaint_filed_7-24-19.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ftc.gov&amp;#x2F;system&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;cases&amp;#x2F;182_3109_fa...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;—[b] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;euobserver.com&amp;#x2F;digital&amp;#x2F;137953&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;euobserver.com&amp;#x2F;digital&amp;#x2F;137953&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;—[c] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;facebooks-oversight-board-says-company-wasnt-fully-forthcoming-on-treatment-of-high-profile-users-11634817601&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;facebooks-oversight-board-says-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Adam_Mosseri&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Adam_Mosseri&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KaiserPro</author><text>&amp;gt; And it really appears to be a Facebook problem. Instagram for Kids wasn’t the fever dream of a deranged Instagrammer&lt;p&gt;Two things to unpack here.&lt;p&gt;its not a facebook problem. its a problem that exists in many large companies. Apple for example doesn&amp;#x27;t give a shit about individuals. (you can see that if you slip off any of the predefined support pathways)&lt;p&gt;_everyone_ to google is just a thing to evaluated and advertised to. They are literally storing your every move and using to sell adverts, services and the like (how do you think they manage the &amp;quot;x is busy now, try later&amp;quot;?)&lt;p&gt;TikTok has literally hoovered up most of the 9-18 year olds, they even say as much when they try and pitch to advertisers. its the wild west on there, with all sorts of nasties flying around&lt;p&gt;Snapchat&amp;#x27;s USP is nudes &amp;amp; bullying, regardless of age.&lt;p&gt;Amazon: knowingly hawks fakes, dangerous and poor quality products, shamelessly copies and undercuts producers. But they have &amp;quot;free deliveries&amp;quot; and free returns, so its all ok.&lt;p&gt;There is nothing unusual about facebook, its just nobody likes them, and its fashionable to not like them.&lt;p&gt;Now to the point: instagram for kids. A fucking stupid idea. There was no possible way it could end good, even if it was perfect.&lt;p&gt;I imagine the thought process was: the kids are flocking to tiktok, we need them on facebook&amp;#x27;s platform. We are able to protect them better than snap&amp;#x2F;tiktok&amp;#x2F;other because we (facebook) have better controls than the rest. We also have some of them on instagram already, its better to make something for them, rather than having them there illicitly.&lt;p&gt;that isn&amp;#x27;t evil, its just hopelessly naive.</text></comment>