Big tech showing its true colors.
Good I wish everyone would stop using meta/fb/Whatsapp.
My volunteering group won’t switch away from WhatsApp :( doesn’t help that half of our volunteers are over the age of 55. It’s the only reason I still have the damn app installed.
For people in the same or a similar boat: reduction is better than nothing. I got all my other contacts to switch over to signal. It’s only that one volunteer group left.
Hopefully the end is near with EU demanded Whatsapp Gateway!
They’ll give human traffickers 17 second chances and allow scammers to proliferate on their platform, but abortion resources and LGBTQ+ spaces? Straight to jail.
Glad I don’t go on FB anymore.
I am a recent immigrant to the EU from the US. Every country here practically runs on WhatsApp. From food delivery, to government reps, to your doctor, it’s everywhere. It would take a lot to shake people from using it.
Facebook: [Has always been a surveillance apparatus intent on exploiting users]
Facebook: [Does what it does]
Everybody: [Continues to pour money and information into facebook ‘because’]
Me: Maybe in a few MORE DECADES people will wake up!
Everybody: [Does not wake up]
Didn’t Facebook show their true colours with surveillance and right wing content a few years after they started?
Well then, time to shut down your Meta account if you still have one. Also do likewise for TikTok and Twitter.
But I have so many weak excuses with incredibly easy solutions, along with very light social pressure to continue using them, it’s impossible.
man I miss pre-facism out in the open america
So like… Before European colonization ?
pre nixon, definitely pre regan- post war era / new deal
so just the imperialism meatgrinder of stuff like the vietnam war and a time of racial segregation domestically and the immediate aftermath of its end (bc everyone totally respected the change and that’s why we aren’t still dealing with the impacts to this day with elder boomer maga shitheads that literally grew up with it). these were definitely great times and a wonderful country to want to return to and you’re definitely not holding up some whitewashed bullshit in your mind.
Like literally telling someone they can’t use a water fountain because they’re too black and violently invading a country for decades because they chose a system of government you disagree with seems pretty right wing authoritarian but maybe that’s just me. America has literally always been fascist, there’s just a few times in more recent history where ultra fascists like the Nazis gave us a villain to be like “well at least we aren’t that” as we send the cia into Latin America to overthrow a democratically elected government that once again doesn’t align with capitalism
Anyone else remember when the Chick-fil-a CEO said some weird shit, put scripture on the bottom of their cups, switched CEO’s years ago, donated millions to minority/LGBTQ+ communities, and the boycott still stands? Yeah, I miss those days. Now it feels like FB will gain more users with this announcement and that’s sad.
they are doing this stuff because they aren’t getting any more users.
