[sergnio]

What's with hacker news and having negative reactions to 100% of everything Meta does?

I don't agree with a lot of Meta's practices, but it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil... Every once in a while, something they do is cool and I think people are being dishonest if people don't recognize that.

[JumpCrisscross]

> it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil

No, but they've lost the benefit of doubt. So in the absence of evidence it isn't evil, they're presumed to be so. Facebook pays well. But that's the cost of that compensation, a cost borne in the courts of public opinion and law, as well as in politics.

[varispeed]

It's like reading a news that a drug cartel built a hospital and then someone goes on commenting "what's with people having negative reactions to 100% drug cartel does? I don't agree with a lot of what drug cartels are doing, but it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil".

Come on, man.

[andrei_says_]

I feel in a similar way.

Meta being evil to the point of profiting from political manipulation, doxxing, addiction, massive extraction of attention, and genocide, is already established.

In related news, in this time of severe drought, the Mexican cartels have expanded their business to stealing and selling water.

[googlryas]

Most people are just meme posters.

Meta: This is evil. Zuck is a robot. Everyone laugh at the metaverse

Google: Wow when are they going to cancel this

Amazon: I've lost confidence in buying anything from amazon

Apple: Apple is too corporate since Cook took over, I hate the app store monopoly

[Nicksil]

>Most people are just meme posters.

>Meta: This is evil. Zuck is a robot. Everyone laugh at the metaverse

>Google: Wow when are they going to cancel this

>Amazon: I've lost confidence in buying anything from amazon

>Apple: Apple is too corporate since Cook took over, I hate the app store monopoly

Because it's all accurate*!

You can try and be all hand-wavy about it, but the fact of the matter is these companies do a lot of harm and I will take advantage of every opportunity to warn others. They've long since lost the benefit of the doubt.

* Excluding Apple. I don't have much experience with them or their platform(s) to make an informed argument either way.

[vagrantJin]

These companies are functioning like whales with pet chihuahuas on cocaine with a trillion dollar war-chest. I might try to make a prompt and see what the AI gives me back.

That they still exist and making money hand over fist should be considered a wonderful, quirky oddity of human fatuousness. I don't think they should be protected.

[Bakary]

Meta does cool things. But knowing that these cool things will be controlled by Meta is not a cause for celebration.

[pGuitar]

why the non-sense? you didn't read the comments?