Well you can also just stop using these products. I don't have or use Facebook, Instagram, Whats App, Reddit (since they removed old.reddit.com unless you have an account), TikTok, Snap, or anything else.
Folks want Facebook or whatever to be regulated into some perfect idea they have in their heads of how it should work and how it should be regulated. Sorry, many people have many views on that, and you're never going to be happy with an outcome. Even this article - Facebook is complying with EU rules/regulations and now you're not happy that your voice isn't heard through your preferred form of political activism. If Facebook allows this content, they break EU laws, or they have to allow some content you disagree with and now you're mad.
I don't know why people, right, left, or sideways keep putting up with this stuff.
> Well you can also just stop using these products
True. But there is a social cost, for now
In my neighborhood Facebook became the defacto "town square" where community organising happens. A bad idea in hindsight, but there it is
I nolonger use Facebook. Not my choice, my account disappeared and I decided not to reconstitute it, and now I pay the price
But the price gets less as time goes by as Meta killed the goose that lays the golden eggs. Their greed and carelessness is making the service less valuable or useful
This (ban Virgina Wolf FFS) is another example. If you cannot advertise what you are doing as part of your community, then what is the point?
Why be part of a service that no longer links people without fear or favour (Facebook of fifteen years ago) but solely exists to market at you?
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Folks want Facebook or whatever to be regulated into some perfect idea they have in their heads of how it should work and how it should be regulated. Sorry, many people have many views on that, and you're never going to be happy with an outcome. Even this article - Facebook is complying with EU rules/regulations and now you're not happy that your voice isn't heard through your preferred form of political activism. If Facebook allows this content, they break EU laws, or they have to allow some content you disagree with and now you're mad.
I don't know why people, right, left, or sideways keep putting up with this stuff.
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True. But there is a social cost, for now
In my neighborhood Facebook became the defacto "town square" where community organising happens. A bad idea in hindsight, but there it is
I nolonger use Facebook. Not my choice, my account disappeared and I decided not to reconstitute it, and now I pay the price
But the price gets less as time goes by as Meta killed the goose that lays the golden eggs. Their greed and carelessness is making the service less valuable or useful
This (ban Virgina Wolf FFS) is another example. If you cannot advertise what you are doing as part of your community, then what is the point?
Why be part of a service that no longer links people without fear or favour (Facebook of fifteen years ago) but solely exists to market at you?