I assume this will result in a slap on the wrist and maybe some lawyers will make a bunch of money but the people harmed will get like a dollar and Meta will view this as the ‘cost of doing business’ and just harder to not get caught next time. These types of things have to be company ending for them to keep people in line…

It is almost like the value many ( not all ) christians see in christianity isn’t the ethics but instead the ease at which they can mark the trait of non-christian and classify it as unclean , evil, and less than. Not that the Bible is the ‘best’ ethical document to begin with but my hot take is that most people look for systems that let them feel better about themselves for the least amount of effort.

It is almost like we had something for this exact thing that was soooo very good that we forgot how bad something was … it is almost like that.

Stay safe people.

I certainly agree that more options will help - but, I would love to see a more federate / user powered, owned option take YouTube’s place not just Youtube #2. it feels like a centralized option will just corrupt over time no matter the intentions and we will just be repeating the same mistakes but perhaps the economics of Video hosting / streaming at scale require something like this … I am not sure how the economics of something like peer tube scale but I would love to see us all learn from our mistake and not just make it again. But … maybe I am just idealistic and not grounded in reality.

Yeah , I love a good ad blocker / sponsor block / privacy frontend but they all feel like duck tape on a sinking boat. At some point we have to move away from these centralized platforms but the enshitification hasn’t outweighed the lion’s share of content / creators on these platforms to a tipping point for the majority. Ad blocks let you mitigate the enshitification so you can stay on these platforms longer - in many cases this is required so not knocking it, I do it as well. My hope is that as these companies continue to go after ad blocks users will finally jump ship in mass as they are forced to confront the lovecraftian nightmare that is any of these platforms without an ad block.

Glad to hear it. But fines like this are just a cost of business for them and for every big company. A fine only hurts if it turns the profit negative. It has to bite enough that breaking the law costs more than not getting caught. Or someone goes to jail. They made more than $942 million by gambling with kids’ safety. The leaders likely read the ruling and did the math and would make the same decisions again and just try harder to get away with it. Getting caught harming children ( not just children ) at scale should result in a company no longer existing. It doesn’t.

yeah , what? So their concern is that drinking water is being ‘contaminated’ by a number of drugs including abortion drugs. I am not sure how that would be happening but yeah better than trying to track people down via waste water. Strange.

This guy … crushing it.

Great! I hope it goes lower but also i hope people don’t take these numbers as evidence they don’t need to show up to vote. All the articles about a ‘blue wave’ make me bullish but also worried that people will check out – but maybe I am being paranoid.

My one hope with all this nonsense is that it will drive people away from centeralized products and toward more open , democratized options ( and that those options will remain excluded from these laws. )… but the world doesn’t normally go the way that I want.

Cool!! i was literally just thinking about this as part of my effort to be more analogue. I will follow this hungrily.

Maybe these type of things will finally push people away from these platforms and toward more open / non-centeralized platforms.