This follows another recent legal victory for New Mexico, where courts awarded $942 million in judgments against Meta across a two-part trial concerning minor safety controls
  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    29 days ago

    They should have been put out of business when they started manipulating elections in 2014/2015 but it’s never too late

  • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    29 days ago

    Good

    But, I’m more excited about the possibility that here in Australia they might allow you to block random crap coming up on your feed you didn’t follow. As every right wing Nazi idiot is posting rage bait and bullshit to get attention on it

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      103·
      29 days ago

      "I know Facebook is a Nazi org, but I’ll just keep generating money by continuing to use it and hope they allow me to block Nazi shit. "

      • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        29 days ago

        I operate meetup events. My choices are meetup which is overpriced, or Facebook. Unless you have any suggestions

        Also, the benefit of this stretches far what I do. It’s the easily corrupted dckheads who won’t be absorbing this stuff on a daily basis.

        The reality is, I believe a huge factor in all the shit going on is Facebook at the moment. Laws like this are highly beneficial

        • xtr0n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          29 days ago

          I appreciate that you’ve made an effort to find alternatives. I refuse to use Meta products and it’s so frustrating when promoters act like I’m a freak for even asking if they post announcements anywhere other than IG

        • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          27 days ago

          What about a Lemmy meetup communuty for it? The person running the server for your province or state might allow it. I think DBzer0 might allow users to make their own communities.

          • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            27 days ago

            I’ve considered making an invite actually here for Melbourne Australian hikers… But, not sure anyone would notice

  • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    29 days ago

    unrelated criticism:
    the website hosting this article is loading 40 third-party scripts.

  • ProfessorYakkington@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    28 days ago

    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.

  • OneOfManyPerfectCats@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    29 days ago

    Meh. Who cares about these monetary judgements, they don’t change anything. I want to see metaphorical heads roll (people jailed for this.) Fines have no consequences whatsoever.