Meta Officially Accepts Blood Money to Promote the Big Lie

Imagine a world without Apple, Facebook and Google!!

Pepperidge Farm remembers

Yeah, but then again, we didn't all have little computer/TVs in our pockets that could give us directions when we're lost, so there's pluses and minuses.
- Tiny screens that can access almost the totality of human knowledge and creativity.
- We can have devices in our pockets that give directions without Apple, Facebook or Google. OSMAnd maps does that very well, hell it has far more details than even Google Maps. I can spot where individual park benches are and all sorts of meaningless yet somehow joyfully pointless landmarks.
  I've run an Android phone without Google Play Services for several years now, and haven't missed out on anything much more than Google Pay (which I really question the need most people claim towards).
  FYI, contactless card purchases are treated as "cardholder not present", which is akin to an old telephone catalogue purchase. As far as the bank is concerned, when you transact this way the seller accepts default responsibility for a faulty purchase. If you use Google/Apple Pay, or Chip & PIN, then the buyer takes responsibility via their PIN or their phone password. So using these services actually puts you on the back foot when it comes to exercising your consumer rights.
- It would have happened without them.
I literally can't, I wasn't alive, wasn't for 9/11, or columbine either. If anyone ever wonders why Gen Z is the way it is, that's why, those events and more (hehe climate change) have plagued our lives since birth.
- They've plagued the lives of Millennials, too, just more directly. Even old Millennials were still children when Google was first created.
  Gen Z is what you get when people grow up with the ubiquity of the internet and a bleak outlook. It's a recipe for people who know how to mobilize, and I'm here for it.
Shudder
Antidisestablishmentarianism. That word contains neith Apple, Facebook nor Google.
Plus I'm pretty sure most other words don't contain those brand names, either.
- You did give him a good chance. Is that not the longest word outside chemistry and gibberish children's songs?
someone would be doin it. it may be better to imagine a world without the internet

It's okay, it's just business! You can do anything you want as long as it's just business.

It's like saying "no offense" after saying something totally offensive!
- Which is pretty much the only time someone says "no offense."
- "I'm being brutally honest here!" As they can't figure out any other way to articulate saying the same thing without it being as blunt and offensively direct as possible
Including not paying taxes, polluting with impunity, not inspecting your product so it's tainted with E. Coli, etc. At best they'll get a fine which is %0.001 of their annual revenue.
"Very legal and very cool."
It's not a war crime if it's the first time..

I think it is time to de-federate threads.net, facebook.com, and everything Meta from every Lemmy and Mastodon instance in response to this.

Threads still exists? Oo

"You can be unethical and still be legal; that's the way I live my life haha" - Mark Zuckerberg

Vice versa, many things that aren't unethical are illegal nevertheless, which makes mindless people think they're unethical - such as free trading, doing drugs, or simply deciding opening hours of your own shop, to mention a few...
🤔 "Why should doing drugs be illegal?"
🤡 "Because it's unethical!"
🤔 "Why do you believe it's unethical?"
🤡 "Well, duh, because it's illegal!!!"
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Join the billionaire club, Zucky. You aint special.

Rigged market capitalism and embracing insatiable greed as our core cultural value has destroyed us.

It's over, this is just leftover momentum. The engine is half a mile back in a million pieces. Something new will have to be built, or we can just continue to subsist inside the capitalist's fully purchased and propagandized capital farm.

We're a bunch of cowards that confuse guns with bravery though, so probably the second one.

Total system collapse is the only way things will get better down the road. The people with power in this world have lost their last shreds of humanity, and the people without power are too beaten down to do anything about it.

Capitalism shining bright as ever

I've never immediately felt the need to punch a face ever before seeing the guy on the left. I know Mark has a slappable face, but that guy grinning makes me want to punch him.

Who is the guy on the left? He's giving off a Montgomery Burns vibe.
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai

They both need a swift kick to the ass and then the teeth.

Greedy fucks.

Removed under rule 6, no calls for violence.

Lemmy users: "they should be best down. That would solve our problems."

We should probably be pointing fingers at the legal system in the U.S. for taking no kind of legal action or executive actions to change laws. Facebook and Google can get away with what the laws don't prohibit. Europe is a good example these days that tech giants don't make the rules and enough pressure and changes can force their hands because in the end they want to exist to make money.

"it doesn't say giant tech platforms have the right to make money off of it."

I am not defending what meta is doing but there is literally more evidence to suggest big tech can do what they want because there are no laws that say they can't make money off of it. You can be upset all you want but blame the system for not putting restrictions in place for platforms getting away with doing these things. Bitching about Google and Facebook being evil doesn't do anything. Unless something legally and lawfully changes nothing is going to change.