How the Meta Settlement Silences Youth Activism (www.eff.org)
from madeindex@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 17 Sep 11:40
https://lemmy.world/post/52021288

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Trilogy3452@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 17:35 collapse

TLDR is basically because young adults can’t access the platform they’re missing out on news and a chance to have their opinions heard.

If I read that right

eldavi@lemmy.ml on 17 Sep 20:32 next collapse

young adults can’t access the platform they’re missing out on news [on palestine] and a chance to have their opinions heard [about china].

changed the words in your statement to reflect the true intention behind all efforts at preventing tomorrows’ young people from accessing social media via age & id verification laws that are currently being pushed all over the global north and its periphery – the epstein class wants to keep westerners ignorant about their inhumane deeds like it’s still 1995.

group_hug@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 15:29 collapse

There is no news on Canadian Facebook, so there is that.

Everyone gets different news according to the algorithm anyways.

Ultimately the Facebook corporation and the billionaire that runs it decides what news propaganda gets pushed to each individual in their feed.

Any activism on the platform is going to be shared with the government Zberg helped install so it can be quickly quashed, intimidated, or eliminated.

This doesn’t seem like big loss to me.

Trilogy3452@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 19:40 collapse

There is probably a matter of precedence, so potentially other companies may follow