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[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Meta's anti-LGBT rules are closely knit to their ending the fact-checking: It is science denialism and linked to racism and vaccine skepticism.

Homosexuality and gender identity are not considered mental illnesses, Sex is not a binary, and Race is not connected to intelligence.

Bigots never liked science on these three, and now they use political power to impose their narrative.

Meta never moderated such discourse. Nor reddit nor twitter nor youtube. There was no censorship to end here. What this is, it is a free pass to punch down trans and gay people. It is incitement to violence, and Zuckerberg and Musk must go to the gallows for it.

Don't get me started on the toxic harassment these platforms have allowed against African and Carribean reparation activists, how they have destroyed the lives of feminists, and how they have named all Palestinians terrorists.

At this point race realists and gender essentialists have ensured political and technological control of the narrative.

There is no room for debating sealioning trolls on this one. If they don't understand the social dynamics against gender/sex/minorities at this moment, they are no better than brownshirts.

It is permabans and hooks and jabs all the way, for every single weird freak that backs this deranged hateful shit.

[–] niva@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

This puzzles me. Why do these Meta employees care for LGBTQ people? How can anyone work for Meta and have a conscience?

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Dude I've never had a single job that wasn't for an entity I didn't find morally reprehensible. I don't think most people will ever have a choice in this matter. You have to work to eat.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There is more often than not a choice. Take what job you can get, but that doesn’t mean you need stop looking.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

That's by design. We're all wage slaves to the rich to be exploited. Upward mobility is a myth.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

Cognitive dissonance.

[–] Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 36 points 10 hours ago

I refuse to use Meta, and I block their various URLs in my home. Friends and family complain and give me grief about it. It's astonishing how much of a creep Zuck is, and yet he's got his hooks in deep, and some people are still addicted to his garbage.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 60 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Now we're doing headlines like this with tech companies in addition to politicians? These fuckers act with impunity because they can.

For some reason, it appears the unbreakable barrier for humanity is switching the fucking social media site you go to.

What would it take for people to consider not looking at Instagram and Facebook? A feed full of snuff videos?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

the unbreakable barrier for humanity is switching the fucking social media site you go to.

Facebook is quickly becoming a retirement community, exclusively for me-maws and pepes. It hasn't been the tool for college kids to organize keggers in nearly a decade.

But when alternatives to Facebook crop up - your Instagrams and TikToks and Discords and WhatsApps and Grindrs - they don't last long before being gobbled up by the bigger social media giants or shut down by hostile state regulators.

In the end, everything returns to Facebook, because the big companies can borrow money for free and staple on whatever small firm is seeing a lot of early growth. I give BlueSky another three years, tops, before one of the big social media giants acquires it.

[–] SolaceFiend@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Instagram and TikTok are already big social media giants in their own right.

If TikTok gets gobbled up, it'll be because of the legal proceedings going on in which lawmakers are trying to force TikTok to allow itself to be bought up by some US company. Which is another issue altogether, cause if I start a business, the legality of the US government forcing me to sell my business to someone else, or even to be forced to sell my business to a foreign government or company and not be allowed to possess it, is a whole can of worms.

But outside of WhatsApp being shut down due to security reasons, the majority of those wouldn't qualify as social media sites that would be gobbled up by some other social media giant.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Instagram is, uh, Meta? It was gobbled up just as it was taking off.

Tiktok couldn't be gobbled, and is being beat down by legislators until they sell to US tech firms.

[–] SolaceFiend@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I stand corrected then. You can ignore all my bloviating.

[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

bloviating

I love this word. TIL it.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

pepes

You're thinking of 4chan

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[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

I guess being an a-hole has always been cheaper than not being one.

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 71 points 18 hours ago (12 children)

Its amazing how quickly these assholes have dropped any sort of facade they were keeping up towards their public image. At best they are doing whatever they think will get them the most money, more realistically they actually support this regressive bullshit. As a non-American I am so pissed at what a good portion of that country has voted for and those that stayed home instead of preventing this.

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 44 points 18 hours ago

LOL welcome to corporate America. The only reason they paid lip service to causes like you mention is because it was temporarily a pathway to more profit. Now that Trump is in office (or nearly so, anyway) they have read the room and realized these beliefs are actually a liability now. So, surprise! They dropped em like a rock in the pursuit of more profits. Never never never trust a corporation to do the right thing. They sometimes accidentally do it in the pursuit of profits, but tying your hopes and dreams to a large corporation is a foolish plan. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU THEY CARE ABOUT THE MONEY IN YOUR WALLET.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 21 points 16 hours ago

The oligarchs have paid their tithe to king Trump and feel like they are immune to consequences. So far they have been correct.

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[–] slowmotionrunner@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

“Total Chaos” feels a bit overblown…

[–] modus@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It's probably accurate. Imagine cubicles and desks smoldering in a filthy, smokey heap, copy machines smashed through the windows, sparking electrical conduit dangling from the ceiling. It's likely madness.

[–] slowmotionrunner@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 hours ago

Dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria!

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago

I wonder if even one chair has been overturned.

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 21 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

You know what would be an effective 'protest'? If employees started deleting important files...

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

you have to introduce errors that are likely to not be spotted right away. Set variables that cause 1/1,000,000 errors on pages or that that move things around over time

[–] mke@programming.dev 39 points 15 hours ago (9 children)

Sorry, I can't tell if you're serious or not.

It's extremely unlikely that facebook has in place a system that allows any lowly engineer to cause such damage alone. No hard drive hosting unique files no one else has, without backups, without security, and so on.

If you're a billion dollar corp that depends on an important recipe to make your product, you're not leaving the only copy of it on front desk with no oversight.

I don't see how deleting files would work as a form of protest. Would probably get you in trouble, though.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Tell me you've never worked in a tech company without telling me...

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I’m sure that meta doesn’t have backups so that makes this an effective form of protest

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