Re:Facebook chooses profits over people
by bambax on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:56AM
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Agreed. Companies are all "evil" in that they exploit people for profit. What about cigarette makers? Or Monsanto? Does anyone think those companies care about people?
Oil companies conspired for decades to hide the fact that their product directly destroys, not just their customers, not just some specific category of people, but the whole planet.
Maybe because tech companies were founded and run by young guys, there was some hope that they would be different. Well, they aren't.
It's true that Facebook is in a class of its own, but that's because of its size and power; not because of its unique "evilness".
Oil companies conspired for decades to hide the fact that their product directly destroys, not just their customers, not just some specific category of people, but the whole planet.
Maybe because tech companies were founded and run by young guys, there was some hope that they would be different. Well, they aren't.
It's true that Facebook is in a class of its own, but that's because of its size and power; not because of its unique "evilness".