@evacide because every single court case or instance where someone could be held accountable for actual harm done to people somehow only becomes a legal bribe to forward surveillance capitalism while continuing to harm people en masse?

@evacide Meta settled. That tells me right there that Meta thinks this is a reasonable cost of doing business / making the bad publicity go away.

Looks like today’s market agreed

I see I should have been more specific: SOMEONE WHO HAS ACTUALLY READ THE ENTIRE TEXT OF THE SETTLEMENT.

@evacide Because their repeated collective neglect of human life and the resulting collective damage that Facebook/Meta has caused over several decades are in no way proportionate to the slap on the wrist they have received, a company that has repeatedly acted beyond the most basic human, moral, and ethical standards should have received a much more substantial penalty than this merely laughable insult to any advanced society and community in the world…

@evacide Because it's at best a spredbump and the Zuck remains free?

@evacide “As part of the settlement, the company denies wrongdoing.”

@evacide

They codified age verification. No more anonymous facebooking. Age verification is a privacy nightmare and surveillance capitalist's wet dream.

Think of it this way--before, a predator had to go find each kid individually. Now there will be a centralized database of children with a lot of personal details to exploit.

@evacide the suit was for over a trillion dollars, it was supposed to destroy them.

$17b is pocket change

@evacide Because no amount of money is worth settling with Meta and missing the opportunity to expose their internal machinations in a courtroom setting?

@evacide Meta exploited children for an increase in ad revenue.

That about right?