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Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by krapp on Friday July 18, 2025 @09:01PM (#44611562)
No... making teenagers feel depressed sometimes is not in fact worse than facilitating the Holocaust, using human limbs as currency, enslaving half the world and dousing the earth with poisons combined.
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Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by bdangubic on Friday July 18, 2025 @09:23PM (#44611681)
it is when you consider number of people affected
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Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by krapp on Friday July 18, 2025 @09:54PM (#44611853)
No, it isn't.

I'm not saying Meta isn't evil - they're a corporation, and all corporations are evil - but you must live in an incredibly narrow-minded and privileged bubble to believe that Meta is categorically more evil than all other evils in the span of human history combined.

Go take a tour of Dachau and look at the ovens and realize what you're claiming. That that pales in comparison to targeted ads.

Just... no.

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Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by 1718627440 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @10:21AM (#44615683)
Dachau was enabled by the Metas of that time. It needed advertising aka. propaganda to get to this political regime and it needed surveillance to keep people in check and target the people who get a sponsorship for that lifelong vacation.
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