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Interesting rant, though I don’t agree with it. I think Facebook is a Hanlon’s razor company. Those who leave believe it is malicious. Those who stay (like me), believe it is incompetent. In a specific way — the product side isn’t strong enough to resist capture by the ads side.
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#Facebook is a rotten company, rotten from the top down, its founder, board and top execs are sociopaths and monsters, committers of non-hyperbolic, no-fooling crimes against humanity. They lie, they cheat, they steal. They are some of history's greatest villains. 1/
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Mark Zuckerberg onstage, speaking in front of a large stock-report chart that shows a descending line, captioned with a Facebook 'Delete My Account' button.
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Any business that relies on ads is a 2-sided market. And ads-sales sides of all businesses, be they paper magazines/newspapers, city public transit, or social media, are the same. They attract the same kind of sales/marketing ops people, who operate under the same moral hazards.
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If this were true, courts would hand out the same sentence for first-degree manslaughter and accidental death. And in more complex cases, actions that result from malice are typically detectably different. And the harm is never the same except in the simplest cases.
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You may be confusing punishment for a crime for acceptance of crime as being okay. We agree as a society that committing murder is unacceptable and wrong. I would argue that the evil Facebook does is evil. How Zuckerberg and Sheryl should be punished is different.
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No I am not. I think you're simply interpreting a big, messy situation in simplistic ways. Facebook's negative impact is more like failed US mission in Afghanistan than to a pre-meditated malicious mission. There have been pockets of malice, but the overall pattern is not malice.
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A big messy situation is deaths by passive smoking. Is facebook also good? Yes. Is it also harmful yes? Is it harmful to innocent people? Yes. Does the need to protect the innocent exceed the value? Yes. Therefore it must be regulated. I call the harm - evil, fwiw.