Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So they’re not even arguing that they’re selling children’s data. They’re arguing against the block on such sales. Rotten to the core

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  • Poggervania@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, the United Corporations of America loves milking kids for money because they hope and bank on kids annoying the shit out of their parents to spend money on whatever is being marketed towards them

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s why toys and sugary cereals run alongside cartoons. We should just ban advertising toward children.

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  • cedarmesa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At this point I’m wondering who the fuck is still using Facebook

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not to defend Meta, but monetizing doesn’t imply selling. Factories monetize their equipment, for example, but they don’t sell it if they want to stay in business.

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    • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My guy, what do you think an ad network uses people’s data for? This is not even a hypothetical situation. They will absolutely sell anything they can to some dogshit corporation, for targeted adverts

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    • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure but they are still maintaining data and selling access to it insights from it or ads targeted based on it to third parties.

      It’s being used to target content to minors for the purpose of selling directly to them, influencing their choices without any kind of real oversight.

      Even if the data isn’t sold directly it’s still not okay.

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• LemmyNameMyself@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We care so much about your children!

  *Profits by monetizing children data, even though people under 13 aren’t allowed on their platform by their own terms of service.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How about you sue yourself for being Facebook

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• Son_of_Kee@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can tell how much money they make off of children, because it must surely be a lot for Facebook to blatantly admit to their misdeeds just to openly fight it like this.

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• MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As I stated in a previous comment on some other bullshit Meta did. Think about this any time Zuckerberg tries to launder his image in the Lex Fridman podcast.

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• bigFab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  95% of parents would have never figured by themselves how wrong this is. Still they will never understand why I don’t see any good on bringing a new child to this rotten world.

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• DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Zuck needs the bucks

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