GONADS125

GONADS125 , 2 months ago

PDF Gear is the free alternative I use. Adobe can eat read a dick.

GONADS125 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/

Edit: In case you need more citations for why Meta is a worthless and unethical company...

GONADS125 , 3 months ago

For the Meta apologists, I have a reality check for you:

Threads was immediately subject to mass amounts of radicalizing, extremist content, and there have also been instances of users having personal information doxxed on Threads due to Meta's information-harvesting practices. [1]

Threads was marketed to be open to 'free speech' (read: hate speech and misinformation) and encouraged the Far-Right movement to join, who have spread extremism, hate, and harassment on Threads already. [2] Threads has been a hotbed of Israel-Palestine misinformation/propaganda. [3] They also fired fact-checkers just prior to Threads' launch. [1]

As already established, Meta also assisted in genocide! [4]

Meta/FB/Instagram also have a strong history of facilitating the spread of misinformation and extremism, which contributed to the January 6th insurrection attempt. [5], [6]

This really should be obvious by now.. but Meta mines and sells their user's information.[7] Just look at the permissions you have to grant them for Threads...

FB users have to agree to all sorts of unethical things in the TOS, including giving Meta permission to run unethical experiments on their users without informed consent. [8] Their first published research was where they manipulated users' feeds with positive or negative information, in order to see if it affected their mood. It did, and they successfully induced depression in many of their users!

I will now turn to an article that surmises well the core practices of Meta as a company:

• Elevates disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories from the extremist fringes into the mainstream, fostering, among other effects, the resurgent anti-vaccination movement, broad-based questioning of basic public health measures in response to COVID-19, and the proliferation of the Big Lie of 2020—that the presidential election was stolen through voter fraud [16];

• Empowers bullies of every size, from cyber-bullying in schools, to dictators who use the platform to spread disinformation, censor their critics, perpetuate violence, and instigate genocide;

• Defrauds both advertisers and newsrooms, systematically and globally, with falsified video engagement and user activity statistics;

• Reflects an apparent political agenda espoused by a small core of corporate leaders, who actively impede or overrule the adoption of good governance;

• Brandishes its monopolistic power to preserve a social media landscape absent meaningful regulatory oversight, privacy protections, safety measures, or corporate citizenship; and

• Disrupts intellectual and civil discourse, at scale and by design. [9]

GONADS125 , 3 months ago

Enshittification had already been largely discussed here.

I saw users minimizing the aberrant business practices of Meta and doubting their role in assisting in genocide.

My point was to highlight how unethical and horrendous Meta itself is.

GONADS125 , 3 months ago

I get 3x as many groceries at Costco for the same price as at Walmart.

GONADS125 , 4 months ago

I have a key fob faraday cage/pouch keychain to prevent people from being able to dupe my key fob's signal.

GONADS125 , 5 months ago

Given that the painting is protected by glass, I don't really mind this protest. But I do hate when people destroy historical pieces in protest or like some stupid tourists have done in places like Italy.

GONADS125 , 5 months ago

No, they were farming advocates. From the article:

The French capital has seen protests by farmers in recent days, calling for an end to rising fuel costs and for regulations to be simplified - on Friday they blocked key roads in and out of Paris.

And I was not indicating that protesters and dumb tourists destroying precious art are on the same level. But there are other ways to draw attention to crises than destroying historic artifacts.

I don't support that, regardless the cause.

GONADS125 , 5 months ago

Just to play devils advocate, I decided to try to see if there were many instances of artwork actually being damaged. I found this article documenting the many "attacks" on artwork by climate protesters.

It does an excellent job illustrating how unjustified the outrage is, documenting how the attacks don't damage the artwork.

GONADS125 , 5 months ago

Same, been on galaxy phones since 5 (not every model), and have never seen it either. Then again, I have been running Adguard on my phones the whole time.

Edit: Wow, this comment showed up 3 times....

GONADS125 , 5 months ago

Man.. I tried to hit clear after looking at this for a second...

GONADS125 , 5 months ago

This really irks me, because it applies to subs related to weed or other non-sexual content, including some games. I've also been hit with the same prompt to open the official app for subreddits that are "under review" or new.

I only go to reddit from search engine queries to get answers for a topic.

I just posted on reddit for the first time since the API disaster to get support for the watchmaker app (that is the dev's official source for support).

I noticed a weird glitch happening to me (mobile site on Firefox) in which if I edit a comment, it loses all formatting. Like, every space between 'paragraphs' dissappears, and so did the block quotes. It just put ">" in with the jumbled up mess...

GONADS125 , 5 months ago

That's actually a pretty compelling argument.

But then again, I don't think Nixon signed onto have his head in a glass jar. Is parody not an exception?