natarey
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- Comment on Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm 6 months ago:
Well, you’re more optimistic than I am, but I hope you’re right.
The whole internet feels like it’s in a state of irrecoverable rot, and the last ten years have really tanked my confidence in governments to do anything about the clearly harmful, consumer hostile behavior inflicted on us — mostly because they seem to benefit a lot from letting Meta et al. do whatever they want. Like, EU fines, to date, have looked more like the organization wanting to wet their beak rather than fixing anything. I don’t know.
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm 6 months ago:
I was counting from when Facebook et al. became a clear problem — because, again, while I’m glad the EU is looking at this, it’s the US that has needed to take action. Their refusal to do so has left it to the EU to try to something, and i disagree that whatever they end up doing will make a difference. Like, if the price of the crime is a fine, then the crime is legal for a company as big as Meta.
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm 6 months ago:
Justified? Absolutely. Timely? Hardly.
My point was it’s more than a decade too late, and all the EU will do is levy a minor fine that Meta won’t even blink at. The only country that could impose real consequences is the US, and they have no interest in anything that doesn’t benefit these nightmare cyberpunk megacorps.
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm 6 months ago:
This is like an article declaring, “EU Investigates MySpace for causing child addiction and harm” – the people they’re trying to protect don’t use that product any more. The time to do this investigation was fifteen years ago, and the US government should have been the ones to do it.
Don’t get me wrong – fuck Facebook. I hope they have to pay billions. But the people that company is harming now are adults and the elderly. I’m sure fifteen years from now, once all those people are dead, there’ll be an in-depth investigation and legislation about it.
- Comment on Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” 6 months ago:
The FTC will take ten years to accomplish nothing of value – and even whatever fig-leaf ruling they issue will be sued into oblivion, or voided by the Supreme Court.
Privacy is dead because killing it was in the interest of too many wealthy and powerful companies, government agencies, and individuals for it to have ended up any other way.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 6 months ago:
Don’t buy shitty Chinese EVs, buy the somehow even shittier American EVs!
- Comment on Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ 6 months ago:
Yeah, if it says Crypto on it, it’s a scam. Full stop.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 6 months ago:
Almost no one reads the fucking article.
You are describing the human species.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress hits 800,000 sales and no sign of it stopping 7 months ago:
I really wish the gampad controls were better. Which I know is a dumb thing to want for a game as complex as this.
- Comment on is this the moment spez became Heisenberg? Reddit CEO warns users: "We know your dark secrets' 8 months ago:
That’s fair – those aren’t things I ever used.
- Comment on is this the moment spez became Heisenberg? Reddit CEO warns users: "We know your dark secrets' 8 months ago:
Do these people proclaiming Reddit’s data as a “treasure trove of human-generated information”, or Spez claiming “We know your dark secrets” not realize that most of what people say online is at least partially a lie? Most Reddit comments were either low-effort echolalia or outright bullshit of the, “Yeah, that happened eyeroll” variety.