• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    Meta today began removing ads from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media

    . . . Thereby proving the absolute ease and facility with which content can be rapidly identified and removed when that content removal serves the corporation, and thereby actively helping to prove the plaintiffs’ cases for them.

    Now that’s meta.

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    The strategy to fuck with a class action lawsuit is to fuck with the lawyers leading the class action lawsuit.

    … This is how you get another class action lawsuit, which is comprised entirely of lawyers.

    Jesus Fucking Christ, these people are idiots.

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      Not that I think anything Facebook does is good, but doesn’t this just make sense? They’re not required to provide ad space to anyone, so why would they provide it to people who want to harm their business? If I was the evil CEO of an evil corporation, I would do the same.

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        Yes, but it also hurts their case when they’re demonstrating clearly that they can filter out ads they determine to be harmful.

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        I hope it leads to them losing another class action about scams. They claim it’s too hard to regulate ads when there are so money, but clearly they can filter if they choose to.

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    Kind of related: if you use Gmail and Android check your spam folder! You might have a class action email informing you about the suit against Google. I had one in my spam folder, have seen others saying the same

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    The fact that what this fucker does is still relevant is beyond me. It means there are people still using his dumpster fire of a website. And that’s what’s beyond me. Eventually I will not consider them as victims, but accomplices. No I don’t care about your excuses and I will not take questions.

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      Corporate malpractice doesn’t seem to register with a certain percentage of the population. Not unless they experience direct harm from it.

      Perhaps because those people would do the same if they were in Zucks position.

      It reminds me of a study I read a long time ago where students from certain fields had different interpretations of what’s construed as lying or cheating. I remember they found that business students have a much lower bar for what’s considered right and wrong.

      STEM students had a much higher bar. These days I find it hard to believe tech would fit among that group anymore.

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        Yea tech got corrupted with the high software salaries. A friend of a friend is a software engineer, really smart guy, really nice and fun to be around from the few times I met him. But I lost a lot of respect for him once he told me he works for Samsung’s ad department. I’m sure he makes a crap load though.

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        Oh but facebook is all but a tech company. It’s designed and controlled by “business” idiots. All the Silicon Valley is like that. Just a shadow of what it was, back then these STEM people were running the show.

        But it seems these stupid companies start to realize that now it’s Product Manager all the way down, they can’t produce much, beside stupid planning. Why do you think they’re so hell bent in believing their slop machines can replace devs?