Get off Facebook. Get off every Facebook service. Block Facebook. Don't work for Facebook. Don't provide services to Facebook. Find every way you can to get them out of your life and support others in doing the same.
They are ethically indefensible.
https://gizmodo.com/leaked-facebook-docs-depict-kids-as-untapped-wealth-1847763431
I think they could be finished,, given they are now under investivgation over Myanmar everyone is looking closely at them.
I need to read the article on that it is linked here somehwhere so trying to find it.
@zleap @metagrrrl Yay and all that but, ultimately, venture-capital-funded Arsebook is waiting in the aisles to take their place. Unless we change the system (outlaw the business model or make it financially unsustainable) and provide ethical Small Tech alternatives, we’ll just be replacing one people farmer with another.
@aral @zleap @metagrrrl the number one unsustainable thing about these big networks is, they need money and advertisers and thus people, but effective moderation will never scale affordably.
So, just call them on their bluff and demand or enforce effective, fair, moral moderation, make them responsible for the content on their system. Not a huge deal for Mastodon hosts, the volume is low. Deal breaker for giant centralized socials.
+1 maybe we need different approaches, Schools in the UK are "Committed to promoting the safeguarding the welfare of children and young people" it is a statutory duty and YET they use facebook
Per haps we shouk be asking how this is the case given the recent evidence that facebook put profit before child welfare.
Force people to under take ethical and moral sole searching, make them feel hey are part of the problem being on there rather than the solution which is supporting federation.
I get told kid young people don't care about privacy perhaps those saying that have been brainwashed or have not asked the right questions
And schools being banned from using anti capitalist material
@zleap @wilbr @metagrrrl I agree but it’s hard. The people who should be protecting others are actively courted by Big Tech. I’ve encountered roadblocks in the past on exactly this topic. Read and weep: https://ar.al/notes/europe-we-need-to-talk-about-institutional-corruption/