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What's with hacker news and having negative reactions to 100% of everything Meta does? I don't agree with a lot of Meta's practices, but it's not like every si

What's with hacker news and having negative reactions to 100% of everything Meta does? I don't agree with a lot of Meta's practices, but it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil... Every once in a while, something they do is cool and I think people are being dishonest if people don't recognize that.

varispeed 4y ago
It's like reading a news that a drug cartel built a hospital and then someone goes on commenting "what's with people having negative reactions to 100% drug cartel does? I don't agree with a lot of what drug cartels are doing, but it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil". Come on, man.
- andrei_says_ 4y ago
  I feel in a similar way. Meta being evil to the point of profiting from political manipulation, doxxing, addiction, massive extraction of attention, and genocide, is already established. In related news, in this time of severe drought, the Mexican cartels have expanded their business to stealing and selling water.
JumpCrisscross 4y ago
> it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil No, but they've lost the benefit of doubt. So in the absence of evidence it isn't evil, they're presumed to be so. Facebook pays well. But that's the cost of that compensation, a cost borne in the courts of public opinion and law, as well as in politics.
Bakary 4y ago
Meta does cool things. But knowing that these cool things will be controlled by Meta is not a cause for celebration.
googlryas 4y ago
Most people are just meme posters. Meta: This is evil. Zuck is a robot. Everyone laugh at the metaverse Google: Wow when are they going to cancel this Amazon: I've lost confidence in buying anything from amazon Apple: Apple is too corporate since Cook took over, I hate the app store monopoly
- vagrantJin 4y ago
  These companies are functioning like whales with pet chihuahuas on cocaine with a trillion dollar war-chest. I might try to make a prompt and see what the AI gives me back. That they still exist and making money hand over fist should be considered a wonderful, quirky oddity of human fatuousness. I don't think they should be protected.
- Nicksil 4y ago
  >Most people are just meme posters. >Meta: This is evil. Zuck is a robot. Everyone laugh at the metaverse >Google: Wow when are they going to cancel this >Amazon: I've lost confidence in buying anything from amazon >Apple: Apple is too corporate since Cook took over, I hate the app store monopoly Because it's all accurate*! You can try and be all hand-wavy about it, but the fact of the matter is these companies do a lot of harm and I will take advantage of every opportunity to warn others. They've long since lost the benefit of the doubt. * Excluding Apple. I don't have much experience with them or their platform(s) to make an informed argument either way.
pGuitar 4y ago
why the non-sense? you didn't read the comments?

varispeed 4y ago

It's like reading a news that a drug cartel built a hospital and then someone goes on commenting "what's with people having negative reactions to 100% drug cartel does? I don't agree with a lot of what drug cartels are doing, but it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil". Come on, man.

andrei_says_ 4y ago
I feel in a similar way. Meta being evil to the point of profiting from political manipulation, doxxing, addiction, massive extraction of attention, and genocide, is already established. In related news, in this time of severe drought, the Mexican cartels have expanded their business to stealing and selling water.

JumpCrisscross 4y ago

> it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil No, but they've lost the benefit of doubt. So in the absence of evidence it isn't evil, they're presumed to be so. Facebook pays well. But that's the cost of that compensation, a cost borne in the courts of public opinion and law, as well as in politics.

Bakary 4y ago

Meta does cool things. But knowing that these cool things will be controlled by Meta is not a cause for celebration.

googlryas 4y ago

Most people are just meme posters. Meta: This is evil. Zuck is a robot. Everyone laugh at the metaverse Google: Wow when are they going to cancel this Amazon: I've lost confidence in buying anything from amazon Apple: Apple is too corporate since Cook took over, I hate the app store monopoly

vagrantJin 4y ago
These companies are functioning like whales with pet chihuahuas on cocaine with a trillion dollar war-chest. I might try to make a prompt and see what the AI gives me back. That they still exist and making money hand over fist should be considered a wonderful, quirky oddity of human fatuousness. I don't think they should be protected.
Nicksil 4y ago
>Most people are just meme posters. >Meta: This is evil. Zuck is a robot. Everyone laugh at the metaverse >Google: Wow when are they going to cancel this >Amazon: I've lost confidence in buying anything from amazon >Apple: Apple is too corporate since Cook took over, I hate the app store monopoly Because it's all accurate*! You can try and be all hand-wavy about it, but the fact of the matter is these companies do a lot of harm and I will take advantage of every opportunity to warn others. They've long since lost the benefit of the doubt. * Excluding Apple. I don't have much experience with them or their platform(s) to make an informed argument either way.

pGuitar 4y ago

why the non-sense? you didn't read the comments?