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Re:Facebook chooses profits over people by amelius on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:17AM (#28957483)
I said: we should not trust profit-seeking companies to be ethical.

Somehow, this was translated into: profit-seeking companies are unethical. Which is not what I said.

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Re:Facebook chooses profits over people by rglullis on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:20AM (#28957516)
The issue is with your qualifier. Your implication is that what makes them unethical is the "profit-seeking", when is at best redundant (all companies are profit-seeking) and at worst misguided (boo-hoo, profit is bad)
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