Comment by MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz on These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor

This is still I think the most telling glimpse into who the “ZUCK” really is. Looking at what meta has become, how it has operated… No matter how professional and respectable he acts.

This is who he really is.

I don’t it’s a fair assessment - dude was just a kid.

I’ve watched some podcasts and interviews and I think he’s a much more complex of a person. I do genuinely think he’s thinks he’s doing good and I do think that Meta stuff is a net benefit to the humanity.

Even if you hate Facebook it brought people together in so many places, especially if you consider developing world.

Doing good does not absolve you of having done evil.

Zuck has utterly failed in preventing facebook from doing clear, preventable, harm.

I don’t get to walk free, no matter how many homeless people I feed, if I kill one.

The same should go for corporations. If they do evil, once, they should done. Not fined. There is no math which makes the bad that facebook does, necessary to achieve the good it does.

The same should go for corporations. If they do evil, once, they should done.

You kinda just gutted 99% of corporations. And done overall nothing for society because they already all reopened under different names.

Why are you assuming the legal framework for ending corporations couldn’t have mechanisms to prevent that?

For example, offending corporations could be broken up, and have their assets sold to their competitors. The resulting money used as severance for the employees, who didn’t necessarily do anything wrong.

A company can’t just “start back up” if you take all their capital. And no-one would re-invest in people known for taking legal risks that might make that investment go “poof”.

And 99% of corporations wouldn’t be evil if it wasn’t fucking legal, and basically required to compete!

I don’t think it’s even legal to give away a company’s assets without their consent, be they criminal or not.

And anyway, that’s easy to get around that too. Full of companies that already “”“go bankrupt”“” to avoid paying their due and then reopen with money magically appearing from “somewhere”. In the end to me it just seems the more rules/laws you add, the more the average person will suffer because of it while not really causing any for assholes.

“This thing would be illegal” is a pretty shit argument when changing the law is on the table.

And I see you’re a fan “anti-regulation” ideals. Did it occur to you that this system could entirely replace a shitload of micro-managing bs current regulation? And did you miss the part where re-investment in criminals wouldn’t be a thing it was that expensive? The only reason it happens right now is because it technically legal, and cheap.

That’s why limited liability is bullshit. You make the decisions, you go to prison for the crimes that come of them.

It’s kind of a gray area though. Do you just jail the CEO if a company does evil? What if it was someone else inside the company and the CEO didn’t know? And conversely, what if the CEO knew and is trying to pass off like they didn’t, how do you prove it? It turns into slippery slopes pretty fast.

My personal solution would be just to actually scale up the fines. If someone gets fined for something they profited from, it’s extremely stupid for the fine to be less than their profit. You’re basically telling them to do it again.

I mean, aren’t CEOs massive pay justified because they supposedly take on ultimate responsibility for the company?

If a company does something criminal under their watch, then even if they didn’t give the orders they have been criminally negligent - surely?

Now, mind, I don’t think that they should necessarily be the person punished most - the person’s down the chain more responsible should serve more time. But the person at the top shouldn’t get away free.

Regardless though I agree - fines with teeth are the most important thing.

I mean, aren’t CEOs massive pay justified because they supposedly take on ultimate responsibility for the company?

If a company does something criminal under their watch, then even if they didn’t give the orders they have been criminally negligent - surely?

Regardless though I agree - fines with teeth are the most important thing.

Have you watched ‘The Social Dilemma’?

Facebook actively promotes things that will make you scared and angry, because those are the emotions that drive the most engagement and get the most clicks.

I do genuinely think he’s thinks he’s doing good and I do think that Meta stuff is a net benefit to the humanity.

The problem I see is that you’ve bought into his lie. He might “sound” genuine in thinking he’s done good, much like Bill Gates sounds genuine when he talks about his philantropic shenanigans. It’s all an act.

The only net benefit I see off FB/Meta is that it taught us how dangerous and shitty a centralized internet is.

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