• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Meta is a private company and can do whatever the fuck they like.

    This guy shouldn’t be let anywhere near a position of decision making, let alone the highest office in the nation.

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        7 months ago

        Which law are you referencing?

        You agree to their EULA and TOS when you make your account. In that, there exists a clause that states that you can be banned for any reason or no reason at all at the site administrators discretion.

        So explain to me again how meta is in the wrong here?

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            7 months ago

            Again, what laws are you referring to? I want to hear you explain it.

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              7 months ago

              Laws, the ones that countries and sometimes bigger entities enact as rules

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                7 months ago

                Okay, so you have no clue what you’re talking about. Got it 👌

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                  7 months ago

                  Corporations have to follow laws. It’s pretty simple? I am refuting your statement that they don’t have to follow laws. It’s up to you (once you grasp the concept) to continue the debate here

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                    7 months ago

                    I am refuting your statement that they don’t have to follow laws.

                    What kind of nonsense strawman is this? Quote me on where I said that, because I didn’t anywhere in any of my posts.

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      Private company in what way? The company is publicly traded - there are rules and regulations that organizations have to abide by. it’s not totally lawless current state … They’re legally beholden to shareholders to maximize value. They can do what they like but probably don’t want them allowing certain folks to have a platform (moderating the platform). Meta uses the grey area to manipulate and addict users, that’s just their business practice to drive value and generate views/engagement with their platform.

      Agree this dude is unhinged.

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        private company in that it is not owned by the government. Those are the two categories.

        Either they’re owned by the government or they’re owned by private citizens. Being traded on the stock market, or traded privately, or not traded at all makes no difference to them being a private company

        EDIT: publicly traded still means privately bought and owned by private citizens and private businesses/companies. At no point does the government become involved.

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            Tesla just got $17 billion from the government, is Musk now owned by the USA government? No.

            A coal miner just got laid off work and is collecting his first unemployment check while he looks for new work. Because he got support from the government between jobs, does that mean the government owns him like a slave?

            Or perhaps you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about? Yes, that seems to be the case.

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              I’m just saying there can be a case made in front of a judge about the government funding these companies and then using these companies to reprive people of their 1st amendment rights as they have been proven to have done on X.

              But whatever you say… Coal miners… Unemployment… Between jobs… Slavery… Wtf are you talking about?

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                as for “what I’m talking about” - the same thing you are. Government giving money.

                Tell me, how is the government giving money as an unemployment check different to the government giving money to a company? And if your logic is “if the government gives you money, that means the government owns you, that means 1st amendment”, then tell us all how someone who is getting money from the government isn’t just as owned and controlled?

                Because you’re an idiot, that’s how.