Facebook is widely thought to cause significant societal damage; anyone who thinks so, would probably consider employees of Meta to be the ones lacking empathy.

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pfannkuchen a day ago | parent [-]

So Facebook products are definitely not good for humans to use, sort of like cane sugar is not good for humans to use, but I wonder if you also think this about, I dunno, banks? They do vastly more predatory stuff with much bigger impacts. Nobody’s Facebook usage is affecting how much housing costs, for example. But for some reason there seems to be more outrage at social media companies. Odd!

	▲	conception 14 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I’m not sure what this style of rhetoric is called but Matt Bors popularized it in his comic “Mister Gotcha”. And we can be against banks being predatory and Meta. Coincidentally on a thread about Meta the topic is more about them than banks.
	▲	Towaway69 a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If they do it, then we can do it too. So lets bomb some sucker nation or assassinate folks we summarily don't like, without due process. F'k it, if they do it, then we can also do it. How does that make anything better? It results in a degradation of societal values where morals and positive norms are assigned to the pages of history. There was a time when positive examples, folks standing up and resisting was seen as a something good. Nowadays everyone just does it because the others are even worse. So who should start making the world a better place? The others.