Mark Zuckerberg is as he always was, a sociopath

EU has different things going on though. Some good regulation, some bad

I'll add that Meta doesn't actually physically work on top of that

What do we want from companies? Companies tied to a real identity, social networking. You want a way for people to message you -

...oops https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433

...oops https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712

...oops https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1c0xfdz/messenger...

...and a way to see people's status updates.

...oops https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719

Seriously has any CEO of a tech company been caught doing what MZ has done? Oops. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16770818, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122)

The URL of the source for the last link is not working, this is the updated version: https://boingboing.net/2010/09/14/damning-zuckerberg-i.html

...yeah, but its CEO is also who he is. The guy who refers to people using his products as "dumb fucks". That's kind of important

But I was told that when Zuckerberg bought IG, it wasn't to murder competition in its crib. Instagram "only had 12 employees" so it must be ok

So not to hijack this thread or anything but there's one good metric (if nothing else... the fact FB overwrote your email while Google seems to believe in data liberation, and fewer breaches) to tell apart the difference between those two companies

Google had been asked to remove Pirate Bay in results. They didn't. On Google, and I don't really know how it changed over the years, but there'd be a notice about links removed due to DMCA, if it came to that, basically. (Okay, Youtube, which they own, has always been a bit aggressive, and that isn't nothing)

Facebook? Facebook wouldn't let you SEND a link to PB in private messages. It still deletes your post now if you link Anna's Archive. This after apparently heavily scraping LibGen

I don't love Google for a lot of reasons but I damn well feel better using it compared to Mr. "Dumb Fucks"

Try to use Yandex for some shady stuff and see what actually google blocks and doesn't.

20 billion dollars to steal people's phone numbers

Anything Zuckerberg needs antitrust immediately

Followed by him overwriting people's email addresses and constantly fucking around with privacy settings

Ohhhh but he was young! Be easy on him

(/s)

Not only that, but Spybook aka Facebook, also connected offline information, e. g. I think if I recall it was dental care or something like that. I don't remember the year (edit: a google search led me to this article from 2018, but I could swear this was several years before that - see https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43668607), but it was scary that they go and sniff for ALL data they can find about people. This brings mega-corporation to a new level of Evil. And I haven't even gotten to talk about Google here, yet ...