Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on monetizing youth data

Re:Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on mone... by traceroute66 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:25AM (#35814928)

> If you're pissing off Facebook, you're probably doing something right.

^^ THIS !

I remember when Apple hardened iOS so that Facebook & co. could no longer mis-use the system do do evil things such as silently monitor pasteboard contents.

Facebook took out enormous billboard ads at the time in major cities on which they exercised their tiny woe-is-me violin, trying to pretend Apple was the evil one.

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Re:Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on mone... by judge2020 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:32AM (#35817031)

But obviously we should allow Facebook to sideload their own app for the freedom of users.

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Re:Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on mone... by freedomben on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:17PM (#35817844)

This comment should probably be included in the dictionary as an example under "strawman fallacy"

Who is arguing that facebook should be able to sideload their own app onto users iphones?

That's the antithesis of what user freedom advocates argue for. The argument is "it's my device, I should be able to run what I want on it." Not, "anybody should be able to do whatever they want on my device." The latter is more an argument for Apple's status quo where they have full control of the device (that they ostensibly no longer own) and the user does not.

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