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Re:Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an... by flavius29663 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:11PM (#28761402)
Everything was legal until the lawmakers made it a crime, even stalking from bushes. As the society evolves, we introduce more and more laws to govern it, just as some laws are retired.
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Re:Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an... by teawrecks on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:20PM (#28761525)
So the original claim should have been "nothing is a business model, everything is a crime"?
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Re:Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an... by the_af on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:36PM (#28761782)
Do you think that's the most charitable interpretation of the original claim?
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Re:Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an... by teawrecks on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:42PM (#28761888)
The original claim wasn't coherent, that's my point.
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Re:Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an... by flavius29663 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @01:03PM (#28762180)
he didn't say "nothing" or "everything", he said "tracking" is a crime. To which you responded "it's not a crime in our laws" to which I said "YET". I am not sure where you drew this conclusion from? I introduced "everything" in the sense that everything "could" become a crime at some point, like mass private surveillance should.
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