No it’s real simple, you lot act like these big tech companies are evil personified but happily look the other way or hand out whataboutism like candy when it is some group, institution or ideology you support doing the same or even more fucked up shit.
Bunch of delusional fanatics.
Are you seriously comparing systemic rape and abuse to your “big company bad” ideology?
That’s fucked up.
No, you literally said that Facebook is evil, because you said, with grammatically corrections “Facebook is against freedom”. And don’t try to argue that this is a difference or semantic.
Facebook doesn’t give a shit about your ideology, it only wants likes because that improves its influence. Be that capitalism’s influence or socialists influence.
“An enemy of freedom”. 🙄
I mean can you be more cliche?
Or maybe, out of the 3 Billion active users on Facebook each month, you, and many others, are focused on fucked up shit. Because, shock and horror, everyone is gripped by the propaganda of the group. Welcome to being part of a biological social species.
Just for a moment consider the following. Facebook priorities posts that get engagement, they don’t care about morality and fairness and they won’t stop untill it is illegal to do so.
I don’t absolve them of their responsibility, but you attributed malicious intent when stupidity and profit is only needed.
4chan in the early days was just trolls wanting to piss people off. Apart from the occasional post that was truely fucked up, which the community generally made sure the authorities found out who made it.
The current landscape is a bunch of people all wanting to circle jerk themselves to feel virtuous.
The world is just a fucking pathetic eco-chamber now. And I’m a flirty whore for engaging in it.
Thanks for the ironic reply.
Whataboutism indeed. 🙄
Oh for fuck sake, can you to stop with the “what about XMPP” bullshit please?
The fucking protocol still exists. And none of you bandwagoning twats use it. But you constantly talk about it like it was stolen from you. In reality you don’t know what it is and use it as a strawman for your arguments.
Right now, download any number of XMPP clients and start using the protocol.
You don’t because you are part of the “big is bad” elitism trope. Just a bunch of pathetic wannabe underground elitist.
If I name instances in the ML sphere posting clearly anti western propaganda, hate speech and the questionable impartiality of rule enforcement in the fediverse, are you going to cry foul?
That would be because bandwagoning is the lowest form of virtue signalling.
All things that exist already in Lemmy.
And only admins of an instance could artificially prioritise posts on the fediverse, and only on their instance.
Bots, shills and bad actors exist on all platforms to inflate posts and opinions.
And advocating for open standards while excluding platforms because “big company bad” ideology is naivety.
Oh look, more elitism posts.
So you want an alternative to large closed source proprietary platforms, but don’t want to allow anyone who doesn’t use it via a “preapproved” list of providers?
The level of irony in these posts is astounding.
I mean did you read what I wrote or did you just go into fanboy mode?
Firstly, Hunter was not the first person to write an opinion piece, or to write from the perspective of the subject. So “inventing” gonzo journalism? What the fuck does that even mean.
I like his style of writing, but it is commentary. Not journalism.
Literally the name journalism gives you insight as to what the approach of writing is meant to be. A journal is a series of entries in a book denoting objective facts. Commentary on one’s experiences is called a dairy.
I can’t discount your point of view. But I disagree with it.
Hunter S, while awesome, was not a journalist. He was a commentator. He injected his perspective into his writing. That isn’t journalism, that is commentary.
Do we want this to be the equivalent of editorials?
That’s basically all media these days and look how fucked they are.
I’m not asking for it to be peer reviewed, that also sucks based on the current view of the “publish or die” culture of academia.
I have no easy answers. I only have questions and counterpoints.
I’m not saying RS is irrelevant. But it is still not academic papers. As much as they piss me off.
I don’t disagree with your point that he was just a symptom of an underlying problem.
Problems are pretty nuanced when discussing systemic issues.
People, ideology, beliefs… These are all small parts but together they make a big picture.
All I really want is that people think at a multidimensional level.
Oh fuck off he was responsible for the death of millions of people. That’s such bullshit I already feel dirty just asking for some sources.
You are going to give me an IamRight link to support your claim, I’m going to post a rebuttal showing I can prove Aliens rule the earth because “here is a webink” and then you are going to dismiss me with some cliche bullshit about “hurr durr sheeples, troll, shill” argument.
So let’s cut the crap. Your agenda is to support the narrative of the populists, and my agenda is to argue against binary arguments.
Can we move on now?
Remind me when this guy commanded troops?
I must have missed that part in history lessons. Unless you are saying that all advisors to the leadership are responsible for the leaders actions.
Well actually those who continue it as well right, for example every US president since Roosevelt.
Hang on, let’s start the list, please feel free to add to it; Stephen Hadley, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell…
That’s literally like saying Victorinox helps support crime because people who commit crime sometimes use knives.
You are literally washing over the fact that this atrocity was fuelled and perpetrated by religious fanatics and corrupted governments.
Literally the only part which speaks about Facebook is that “social media may have helped spread the violent message” and that Facebook refused to share user data with investigators. Which without a warrant is standard practice.
You are doing the equivalent of putting pictures on a board and drawing strings between them.