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Imagine a world without Apple, Facebook and Google!!
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Yeah, but then again, we didn't all have little computer/TVs in our pockets that could give us directions when we're lost, so there's pluses and minuses.
Tiny screens that can access almost the totality of human knowledge and creativity.
That's the ideal. The problem is there is so much disinformation and poor information that finding reliable accurate information is more difficult and requires effort that the majority don't make.
Having the world's information at your fingertips is great, but having people actively trying to dilute or distort it is not.
That and Trump speeches, but still...
While also tracking everything you do.
Also SO MANY TITS
We had that before smartphones
I would change the word "almost" to "some of"
It would have happened without them.
Yeah, and those companies would turn out just like them.
I literally can't, I wasn't alive, wasn't for 9/11, or columbine either. If anyone ever wonders why Gen Z is the way it is, that's why, those events and more (hehe climate change) have plagued our lives since birth.
They've plagued the lives of Millennials, too, just more directly. Even old Millennials were still children when Google was first created.
Gen Z is what you get when people grow up with the ubiquity of the internet and a bleak outlook. It's a recipe for people who know how to mobilize, and I'm here for it.
I can't believe I didn't mention how important the internet and 21st century technology is to Gen Z. While it certainly has its harms, it's been vital for the spread of information, and we kind of just grew up using it daily like most, but since almost birth.
Just to epitomize that, I learned the windows shortcuts (control c, control v, etc) before I learned how to tie my shoes or ride a bike and I had classes that taught Java coding in junior high.
Gen Z is what you get when people grow up with the ubiquity of the internet and a bleak outlook.
Only Gen Z that's hyper involved in certain forms of politics(and you'd find people of any generation are pessimistic when they're involved in those same forms) like most Gen Z on here. I'm Gen Z, and of course so are most of my friends- we're pretty optimistic. But, I guess, generalizations based on generation have always been pretty meaningless.
Shudder
someone would be doin it. it may be better to imagine a world without the internet
It's okay, it's just business! You can do anything you want as long as it's just business.
It's like saying "no offense" after saying something totally offensive!
Which is pretty much the only time someone says "no offense."
"I'm being brutally honest here!" As they can't figure out any other way to articulate saying the same thing without it being as blunt and offensively direct as possible
Including not paying taxes, polluting with impunity, not inspecting your product so it's tainted with E. Coli, etc. At best they'll get a fine which is %0.001 of their annual revenue.
"Very legal and very cool."
It's not a war crime if it's the first time..
I think it is time to de-federate threads.net, facebook.com, and everything Meta from every Lemmy and Mastodon instance in response to this.
Threads still exists? Oo
Rigged market capitalism and embracing insatiable greed as our core cultural value has destroyed us.
It's over, this is just leftover momentum. The engine is half a mile back in a million pieces. Something new will have to be built, or we can just continue to subsist inside the capitalist's fully purchased and propagandized capital farm.
We're a bunch of cowards that confuse guns with bravery though, so probably the second one.
Total system collapse is the only way things will get better down the road. The people with power in this world have lost their last shreds of humanity, and the people without power are too beaten down to do anything about it.
"You can be unethical and still be legal; that's the way I live my life haha" - Mark Zuckerberg
Vice versa, many things that aren't unethical are illegal nevertheless, which makes mindless people think they're unethical - such as free trading, doing drugs, or simply deciding opening hours of your own shop, to mention a few...
🤔 "Why should doing drugs be illegal?"
🤡 "Because it's unethical!"
🤔 "Why do you believe it's unethical?"
🤡 "Well, duh, because it's illegal!!!"
🤯
Join the billionaire club, Zucky. You aint special.
Capitalism shining bright as ever
I've never immediately felt the need to punch a face ever before seeing the guy on the left. I know Mark has a slappable face, but that guy grinning makes me want to punch him.
Who is the guy on the left? He's giving off a Montgomery Burns vibe.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Yeah I didn't know at first but now knowing who it is, the need to punch is now tripled.
I mean look at that fucking grin! That's a grin of "hue hue, I am CEO of a multi-billion dollar tech corp and I know my corporation has such a stranglehold on a lot of things in the internet world! YOU'RE ALL MY SLAVES TO MY SERVICES PEASANTS!"
Thanks!
They both need a swift kick to the ass and then the teeth.
Greedy fucks.
Lemmy users: "they should be best down. That would solve our problems."
We should probably be pointing fingers at the legal system in the U.S. for taking no kind of legal action or executive actions to change laws. Facebook and Google can get away with what the laws don't prohibit. Europe is a good example these days that tech giants don't make the rules and enough pressure and changes can force their hands because in the end they want to exist to make money.
"it doesn't say giant tech platforms have the right to make money off of it."
I am not defending what meta is doing but there is literally more evidence to suggest big tech can do what they want because there are no laws that say they can't make money off of it. You can be upset all you want but blame the system for not putting restrictions in place for platforms getting away with doing these things. Bitching about Google and Facebook being evil doesn't do anything. Unless something legally and lawfully changes nothing is going to change.
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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