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A lot of victim blaming in this thread. Why can't you just be mad for someone who was deceived?
at what point is it someone's responsibility to simply know better?
this isn't some complicated deceit it's literally one of the most untrustworthy companies in the world lying to your face. A company we've known for now like two decades is untrustworthy and overtly harms people to make money
do people have responsibility at all?
People can't take increase responsibility for every single aspect of life. It seems straightforward to you because you're likely tech literate. Do you know every process around how the mechanic services your vehicle, how medicines are made that you consume, how food is curated that you consume, how energy is generated that you consume? People can't have intimate knowledge of every aspect of life, therefore if a company says "this is E2EE" you should be able to believe that at face value and rely on consumer protection agencies to follow up if it's inaccurate.
You don't need to be tech literate to follow the news. Meta has been caught in lie after lie for YEARS and it has all been widely reported on. Meta needs to face actual repercussions for their crimes against humanity, but anybody still buying into their bullshit is being willfully ignorant.
No that’s not correct at all. If a company says something you do not in fact just get to believe it at face value and do 0 research, this applies in every field you mentioned. What planet are you from where you are supposed to just believe what companies say at face value????
People often get second options from different mechanics, doctors, contractors, and all sorts of specialists when told something because you need to do your own research to know about stuff.
You literally do in fact need to try and learn and make informed decisions about everything in life.
What you're positing here is a view of life that Margaret Thatcher loved. The idea is, "There is no society. There are no laws. There is no oversight. Everything, all responsibility, all of it is 1000% individual."
Of course in reality that's nonsense. We live in a world with laws that are sometimes enforced, where governments sometimes protect us, because we want them to, because that's good for us all.
But even if you believe in Thatcher's view, then you have the problem of corporations. You can't seriously argue that we should be responsible for everything ourselves, as individuals, and also that corporations should exist, because they are anti-individual.
Chief, if you needed to make an informed decision about every decision in life, there'd be no time for life. That's why other people specialize in jobs so that within reason, confidence can be placed to their decision. I'm not saying you blindly agree and follow everything, but people can't be responsible for every decision. For example, who made the seatbelt in your car? What research did you personally do to verify the safety of your seatbelt. What maintenance have you done to it to ensure that it works as intended? Pretty important life saving bit of equipment.
Edit: my presumption is that you(or the vast majority of the population) haven't done any research into your seatbelt because you trust in the car company and the safety rating requirements of your nation to ensure adequate protection.
You don’t need to worry about who made your seatbelt the same way you don’t need to worry about which specific programmers work for meta
You do need to worry about the repairability and safety rating of your car the same way you need to worry about the core descriptions of Meta’s products
Do you see?
Repairability in what way? Outside of changing the tires, a modern car is so complex with all the electronic systems in it that you can't really repair it yourself and you can't even reset the error codes because you don't have that special tablet to even hook into it.
For safety ratings, do you even know what they test and how without looking it up? I'd venture a guess that no, but I've been surprised before.
People maybe buy a Toyota because they once read that they just work or people may buy a Mercedes one day because their Dad used to always drive one, but they probably didn't sift through the damn safety and repairability ratings for it, they probably just bought it after a test drive. Its the same thing with anything really, how many times have you ever seen anyone question an app or a device that they are using when it just works and they don't even have to think about it? Its either 0 or close to it.
You can simply go look up how repairable various makes and models are considered by reputable sources it’s very simple research that a mere google will tell anyone. You’re actually making it out to be much more complicated than it is. They tell you exactly what the safety ratings are for and how they’re tested you just have to spend more than 0 minutes reading the first few google results.
People can voice ask Google simple questions they’re just not wanting to care about any of this and then are shocked when anything happens.
You admit it yourself they’re just lazy consumers lol
If companies are lying in their advertising to the general public, then that is something the companies are responsible for. You can blame the victims, but that's kind of stupid because there are so many people in the world who are not technically savvy. They don't have the resources, background, knowledge, and skills to evaluate whether what the company is telling them is true. That's why there are laws designed to protect consumers from lying companies.
Would it be great if everyone was an expert in everything? Yes. Are they? No. They never will be. That's why we have laws.
Because it's the gazillionth time the exactly totally absolutely same kind of shit happens with the very exactly same company that didn't even try to hide who they were.
And next week the very very same deceived people will be of Facebook, Instagram, etc. And maybe, just MAYBE they'll migrate away from Whatsapp… to join another proprietary network of another billonaire's controlled megacorp.
Because I'm tired of being "that pain in the ass" when barely suggesting to use something else all to see at the end people crying over things they've be warned about.
If a kid burns themself once on a kitchen's hotplate, you assume they learnt their lesson in an unfortunate way despite all the warnings.
If adults keep burning themselves over and over… and over and over and over, at which point are you entitled to say they're part of the f*cking problem??
It's like buying a hot dog from a gas station and not feeling awesome tomorrow.
If you keep buying the hot dog every week, you see other people buying it and are fine, but you're the only one getting sick week after week, at some point maybe you should just stop buying the hot dog.
No one else is getting sick. They know what they're getting. But you keep buying it expecting this time it'll be different. And when it isn't it's the gas stations fault.
I’m sick of Mark fucking zuckerberg.
If i was the mad king of the usa all of those tech bros would be in a jail in el salvador.
OH JUST USE SOMETHING ELSE!
I do but that doesn’t stop that ugly weak fuck from stealing from my business every chance he fucking gets.