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They are only able to do this, though, because of supine regulators. Here in the USA, Congress hasn't delivered a new consumer privacy law since 1988, when they made it a crime for video-store clerks to disclose your VHS rentals:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy
Meta spies on us and then allows predators to use that surveillance to destroy our lives for the same reason that your dog licks its balls: because they can.
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They are engaged in conduct that is virtually guaranteed by the enshittogenic policy environment, which allows Meta to spy on us without limit and which fines them $1b for making $7b on our misery.
Mark Zuckerberg has always been an awful person, but - as Sarah Wynn-Williams demonstrates in her book - he was once *careful*, worried about the harms *he* would suffer if he harmed *us*.
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Once we took those consequences away, Zuck did exactly what his nature dictated he must: destroyed our lives to increase his own fortune.
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@pluralistic thanks as always for your work.
I hope that if even one friend swears off FB as a result of my sharing your posts on this subject, then it will be worth all the demoralising vitriol and taunting I have always, and still regularly receive, for being anti-Facebook.
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