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Meta was “allegedly” seeding porn to speed up their book downloads. (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 days ago by diz@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Sounds like meta’s judge will have to invent a grand unified theory of fair use to excuse this.

I kept saying about various lawsuits that the important thing is discovery. Nobody knew all the idiotic shit these folks were doing, so nobody could sue them properly.

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[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 37 points 5 days ago

Yea, it's not good of Ars to report the shameless "think of the kids" spin uncritically.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Exactly, plus there’s no shortage of bad shit Meta has done to the youth, this is a stupid reach.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I’m just going to come out and say it: I don’t give a Kentucky fried fuck about the kids.

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