Nineteen members of Congress are pushing Mark Zuckerberg to explain why Meta has allowed ads for cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs to be shown on Facebook and Instagram.
  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Zuck should ask congress why they’re violently maintaining prohibition despite it being an inherently murderous and racist failure.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Meta appears to have continued to shirk its social responsibility

    Why would anyone assume Meta cares about any form of “social responsibility”? They’re an ad company that wants to hoover up your data so they can maximize the profit from the ad space they sell. That’s it. Anything they do that’s “socially responsible” is to get people to use their platform so they can sell more ad space.

    So the answer to this question is simple: it makes money. It’s really that simple. As long as they don’t sell drugs directly, they’re not really breaking any laws, at least not any laws that can’t be dismissed with plausible deniability.

    And honestly, I don’t have a problem with it. I think most drugs should be legal for recreational use, provided people get drugs through legal means. The problem then simplifies to ensuring drug distribution is done legally (i.e. harder drugs should only be used w/ supervision, limits on total amount sold to an individual, etc), and tax revenue can be used for rehab. I think that’s a much better approach than bans, because we can now track users and bake remediation into the system.

    I absolutely hate everything about Meta, but blocking ads for drugs isn’t a real solution. I highly doubt people are using because they saw an ad on Facebook or Instagram, so the problem here isn’t about the ads, but about distribution.

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    “Because we don’t check the content as long as they pay”

    God I wish he would just say the silent part out loud.

    • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It’s too much trouble, we would only make 10.1 zillion instead of 10.3 zillion dollars!

  • pop@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Wake me up when the “Congress” actually decides to take actions not just ask “questions” after the damage is done and money is made.

    Seems more like election season shenanigans where the government wants to make a last bit effort of making it seem like they’re doing their job but then nothing happens after. Like clockwork.

    • micka190@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Wake me up when the “Congress” actually decides to take actions not just ask “questions” after the damage is done and money is made.

      Right. Into Cryo-Sleep you go, then!

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yes this is there way of looking like they’re doing something without having to actually fix it.

      When they fix problems they don’t have ammo to rile up the idiots.

  • kenkenken@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    But why politicians spread propaganda on social networks? Drug dealers should ask them.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Facebook coke and E. Ehhhh that’s gotta be like asking for as much fentanyl cut in as possible.

    • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Too little, too late, though, in classic Congress style

      The Myanmar Rohingya genocide was nearly a decade ago now, and we’re somehow still at the “asking Mark nicely to do a better job of moderation” step, somehow