Facebook puts ‘profits before people’

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Kind of a no-brainer, isn't it? Profit first is the capitalist way.

Until, at least, the bad publicity puts the profits at risk. Or the unhappy people put the profits at risk. Both of which are unlikely to happen when a company enjoys something of a monopoly.

And so, oversimplifying by a lot, sometimes regulations and laws are needed to help keep the free market from its worst instincts.

Pepe... I thought you conservatives were supposed to worshipfully defend big business to your final breath!! !

Strangely enough, that's become the liberal position, at least when it comes to tech companies and how they moderate. Personally, I'm in favor of some kind of public utility style regulation, like the phone companies not being able to deny service because they don't like what you're saying over their lines, but strangely this idea turns liberals into libertarians, it's the oddest thing.

Kraichgauer, I thought you regressive progressives were for the "little" people.

You do realise that facebook is a shill for the left, right?
It helped Uncle Joe to get in and suppressed the Truth about the origins of the Wuhan Virus to discredit Trump.

God, I hate big business, particularly the sanctimonious hypocritical ones.

BTW, I am not a conservative.
I am an Independent.

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I hold the view that facebook is rather sinister.

If MI6, CIA, FBI, Mossad or some other similar body sent you a questionare which filling is is optional which asks

Who do you know, what are your interests, where do you go on holiday, when did you get drunk last, who are you in a relationship with and a series of other personal questions.

Also if a company like a bank sent you the same form you would be likely to bin it.

Most people would stick it in the circular filing system (waste paper bin), but people fill in the same information into facebook. I hold the view that the facebook company are rather happy to gather information about their users and I suspect that they are looking for methods of making profit from the information.

Netflix currently has a brilliant free movie out on YouTube of how social media manipulates people. It's really worth watching. It's a bit slow to start, but then it gets interesting.

Here it is.

Seriously, watch it. It's very good.

Oh no...how could a company like amazon ever put profits before people, I would have never in my life guessed that...


what a cray cray, suprse.

Oh no, I never said you were wrong. I was just surprised.

I never said Pepe was wrong. I was just surprised by his anti- big business stance.

Oh, I see.
Misunderstanding.

I have been anti-big business for years.
I even had "I hate big business" in my signature, at one time.

It was the royal commission into the banking and superannuation industries that turned my stomach when the degree of corruption came to the forefront.

Part of the reason I don't vote conservative, (well, I don't vote for anyone these days,) is that the conservative party, here in Australia, was protecting the banks.
It was like pulling teeth trying to get the royal commission.

Never forget, you'll always have a home among the left.

This does not surprise me, since Facebook makes most of it's revenue from selling user data to advertisers (who in turn make targeted advertisements). I thought it was all exposed with Edward Snowden and the fact that Cambridge Analytica were manipulating elections in other countries.

I do not trust Facebook, that's why I do not use it.

But do I have to jettison my rational thinking and independent mindset?

Regardless, you will always be my favourite pet progressive.
Here, have a treat.

It's weird how this issue makes conservatives stop imitating libertarians and start advocating for regulations and makes liberals start imitating libertarians. It's almost like most of them (in both blocs) are either full of s**t or haven't thought about it much more deeply than how it impacts their own immediate interests.

But since they're people that probably is the case.

Jettison all rational and independent thought? I think you've gotten conservatives confused with liberals!