Capitalistic free enterprise is the law of the land?
Only for rich people.
Zuck should ask congress why they’re violently maintaining prohibition despite it being an inherently murderous and racist failure.
If the answer isn’t “to sell drugs” I’m going to be disappointed.
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.
Facebook was the real gateway drug this whole time.
Maybe friends are the drugs we took along the way.
Corporations are people except when they are doing literal crimes.
Stop making facebook sound cool
“Because we don’t check the content as long as they pay”
God I wish he would just say the silent part out loud.
It’s too much trouble, we would only make 10.1 zillion instead of 10.3 zillion dollars!
“Senator, we run ads.” —Mark Zuckerberg to Congress, 2018
…and also sell the information who clicks those adds.
Ads*
You’re not clicking ADHD folks?
I tried but they didn’t like it for some reason. Something about it being distracting, dunno wasn’t really paying attention
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.
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!
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.
But why politicians spread propaganda on social networks? Drug dealers should ask them.
Facebook coke and E. Ehhhh that’s gotta be like asking for as much fentanyl cut in as possible.
Test kits, everybody. They’re legal and invaluable.
Eh, it’s best to assume everything has fent nowadays
I also don’t mean to UM AKSHULLY but there almost zero reports of fent-laced MDMA or X…. Coke, definitely more.
Careful with pressies
“well, because they want to sell their products. isn’t that obvious?”
“If you guys stopped locking up my ketamine dealers, I wouldn’t have to turn to FB to buy drugs” - Zuck probably
Too soon?
Be this tru, for a so called “hacker,” dude sucks at the internet
Came here to reply this. h/t
no
Money
This actually sounds like a reasonable question to ask.
If it were you or me they wouldn’t ask, they’d raid. Different Justice system for the rich
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
I’m more concerned with the drug dealers advertising on TV.
