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No one with power gives a shit and congress is just showboating. Maayyyybe they’ll fine him .001% of his worth.

Is a single child’s life worth a billion dollars? What about 10 children? 100?

Not to them. Until business leaders are held accountable for the crimes that are allowed to happen, nothing is going to change. And I doubt that will ever happen. People are far too easy to bribe.

How many deaths would you all be willing to leave unpunished for a million? What about a billion? One, at least. Don’t lie. Think of all the lives you could save with that money. Exactly. Now we’re all accomplices.

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I don’t think I’d be willing to overlook the deaths of young people for an amount of money. The reason your comment seems reasonable is because a lot of us need money to survive in this hellscape. People in power don’t need the bribes. Yet they take them anyways.

Make no mistake of how deplorable these people are. They don’t overlook deaths to help people or pay off their car or eat this month. They do it so they can buy stocks that they unfairly trade and then make millions for a third home and sports car. Would the average person do this? No because the average person isn’t insane and doesn’t want to be a politician.

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Greed is greed regardless if you have money already or not. And also you’re a lair. You have a price.

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Does it matter? Do you think this will have any effect? This is the yearly ‘drag the social media CEOs in front of congress and berate them’ showboat. Literally yearly. And nothing changes.

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A day later, Biden announced, “If you harm an American, we will respond”, and dropped missiles on more than 80 targets across Syria and Iraq. Sure bro, just so long as the Americans aren’t teenagers with smart phones.

Who wrote this??? Sure bro, that sounds like some social media comment. And why use a retaliation bombing as a positive example??? That’s just absurd. Bombings are never good and can always wound or kill innocent people. I get the message social media has negative effects on teenagers but by god the writing style is just braindead.

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That’s definitely his wanking face

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No one with money cares, and no one who wants to be the guy with money cares either

It’s us. The ones without the money, that care. And we CAN make a change but we don’t know how.

Not yet.

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And we CAN make a change but we don’t know how.

Start with “stop using their software.” If they have no data to sell, their company is worthless, but the people you claim care so much won’t stop. I have heard so many excuses as to why people “need” social media its maddening, and yet somehow I manage to survive without sites like facebook, etc. I am only on lemmy as an anonymous contributor, and if I feel like things are headed towards where they are with other social media I will drop it like a hot potato. Delete your accounts, and stop giving them data.

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The problem of course is that the vast mass of consumers won’t do this, it’s only us weirdos

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Reducing the supply increases the value. Create data, just make it worthless. You’ll be doing your part. If enough people piss in the pool, it will eventually reach a concentration that nobody wants to touch.

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That would work if you had control over what data they collected. At this point they are collecting data that you don’t get to see, and you have no say in what they do with it. I realize people signed up for this, but I think they have also been duped or at least denied the ability to even understand what gets collected. You can’t pee into a pool you aren’t allowed to even get near.

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Fuck Zuck

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Yep i wish tech giants would show some standard . But then again they wouldn’t be where they are now.

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