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01189998819991197253 ,
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCUA_B7M87A

BruceTwarzen ,

Stop making facebook sound cool

barsquid ,

Corporations are people except when they are doing literal crimes.

Honytawk ,

“Because we don’t check the content as long as they pay”

God I wish he would just say the silent part out loud.

dan1101 ,

It’s too much trouble, we would only make 10.1 zillion instead of 10.3 zillion dollars!

Tja ,

If the answer isn’t “to sell drugs” I’m going to be disappointed.

pop ,

Wake me up when the “Congress” actually decides to take actions not just ask “questions” after the damage is done and money is made.

Seems more like election season shenanigans where the government wants to make a last bit effort of making it seem like they’re doing their job but then nothing happens after. Like clockwork.

micka190 ,

Wake me up when the “Congress” actually decides to take actions not just ask “questions” after the damage is done and money is made.

Right. Into Cryo-Sleep you go, then!

Pacattack57 ,

Yes this is there way of looking like they’re doing something without having to actually fix it.

When they fix problems they don’t have ammo to rile up the idiots.

technocrit ,

Zuck should ask congress why they’re violently maintaining prohibition despite it being an inherently murderous and racist failure.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Meta appears to have continued to shirk its social responsibility

Why would anyone assume Meta cares about any form of “social responsibility”? They’re an ad company that wants to hoover up your data so they can maximize the profit from the ad space they sell. That’s it. Anything they do that’s “socially responsible” is to get people to use their platform so they can sell more ad space.

So the answer to this question is simple: it makes money. It’s really that simple. As long as they don’t sell drugs directly, they’re not really breaking any laws, at least not any laws that can’t be dismissed with plausible deniability.

And honestly, I don’t have a problem with it. I think most drugs should be legal for recreational use, provided people get drugs through legal means. The problem then simplifies to ensuring drug distribution is done legally (i.e. harder drugs should only be used w/ supervision, limits on total amount sold to an individual, etc), and tax revenue can be used for rehab. I think that’s a much better approach than bans, because we can now track users and bake remediation into the system.

I absolutely hate everything about Meta, but blocking ads for drugs isn’t a real solution. I highly doubt people are using because they saw an ad on Facebook or Instagram, so the problem here isn’t about the ads, but about distribution.

reddeadhead ,

Facebook was the real gateway drug this whole time.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Maybe friends are the drugs we took along the way.

Greg ,
@Greg@lemmy.ca avatar

Facebook is the drug. It’s addictive, mind altering, exploits dopamine hits, isolates individuals in bad circles, makes you spend longer on the toilet etc. It’s literally the blue pill.

eestileib ,

If the FBI showed up at his office with an arrest warrant you better believe that shit would get fixed in a hurry.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

If the FBI showed up at his office with an arrest warrant you better believe that shit would get fixed in a hurry.

But then the FBI would never do anything like that to billionaires.

eestileib ,

I’m unable to comment further.

Buuuuuuuut…

p5yk0t1km1r4ge , (edited )
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

Like he gives a fuck! He’s just gonna tell them what they want to hear and then he’s going back to making millions off of fakebook

MyOpinion ,

This actually sounds like a reasonable question to ask.

xor ,

Too little, too late, though, in classic Congress style

The Myanmar Rohingya genocide was nearly a decade ago now, and we’re somehow still at the “asking Mark nicely to do a better job of moderation” step, somehow

HootinNHollerin ,

If it were you or me they wouldn’t ask, they’d raid. Different Justice system for the rich

kenkenken ,
@kenkenken@fedia.io avatar

But why politicians spread propaganda on social networks? Drug dealers should ask them.

Podunk ,

Shit, this winter, for 3 days strait, i got ads with literal swinging dicks and full on penetration. Reported ads, and moved on. After day three, i deleted the app and only launched from a sandboxed browser with an ad blocker.

Now, i only open it for the marketplace. The place was cancer anyhow, but that was just too much.

KaRunChiy ,

I found out that in most apps that advertise, the act of hovering on an ad and blocking it greatly increases the chance of seeing the same or similar ads

dezmd ,
@dezmd@lemmy.world avatar

“Our ads are showing mouse hover metrics, increase the ad spend!”

N0x0n , (edited )

Triggggerd ! Today’s ads are targeted and way more sophisticated than years ago. Maybe watch less porn? 😆

Edit: Come on guys… You lost your sense of humor? Touch some grass, stop beeing so serious about everything… uuhhhg !

Zier ,
@Zier@fedia.io avatar

[raises hand]
I know why.
It's because Meta is a trash hole and lives to exploit people.

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