Because they need so sell their drugs?
Capitalistic free enterprise is the law of the land?
Only for rich people.
“well, because they want to sell their products. isn’t that obvious?”
“If you guys stopped locking up my ketamine dealers, I wouldn’t have to turn to FB to buy drugs” - Zuck probably
Too soon?
Came here to reply this. h/t
no
[raises hand] I know why. It’s because Meta is a trash hole and lives to exploit people.
“Senator, we run ads.” —Mark Zuckerberg to Congress, 2018
But why politicians spread propaganda on social networks? Drug dealers should ask them.
Facebook coke and E. Ehhhh that’s gotta be like asking for as much fentanyl cut in as possible.
Eh, it’s best to assume everything has fent nowadays
Test kits, everybody. They’re legal and invaluable.
I also don’t mean to UM AKSHULLY but there almost zero reports of fent-laced MDMA or X…. Coke, definitely more.
Careful with pressies
I got an ad once for a group selling stolen credit card numbers too. I must have reported it at least a dozen times but it was always kept up and the report said it didn’t break any rules. It only got removed after I just skipped Facebook reports and reported to the police.
We get posts here too, and on Reddit
The posts here get reported and removed very quickly, sometimes within minutes of the account being created or the first post.
I searched Reddit for the website they were linking and saw the spam posts on Reddit have been up for months.
Few possible differences:
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We have a better ratio of users/moderation, where the lower volume of posts means everything can go through human moderators
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Our users are more actively trying to keep the platform good by reporting spam
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The incentive here is to create a good online platform. The inventive there is profit. The priorities are different as a result
Great points.
I might add:
I strongly suspect that a much bigger fraction of the free volunteer labor moved here, than anyone has realized.
Zuck and Spez know how fucked they are, but they’re motivated to downplay the damage to their platforms.
There’s an unvirtuous cycle where their platforms have under-resourced moderation, which has allowed bot proliferation, which has made unpaid moderation work a shittier job, which causes moderators to leave, which allows more bot proliferation.
Folks here seem to be saying our moderation tools are objectively poor, but are getting better with each release. So it’s the bot spammers whose life gets harder, over time, here.
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I’d be shocked if cops did anything with that. Local police are incompetent (and, to be fair, waaay under resourced) when it comes to cybercrimes. Who did you report it to?
You loval police force is probably the most well funded department of your city’s budget. It’s essentially a jobs program for your towns biggest assholes.
Sure, but they’re under-resourced for cybercrimes. They have a lot of beat cops out giving tickets and beating up black people, but probably nobody who knows anything about credit card scams.
Local police need a readjustment of priorities and tiers of staff. Ideally we’d have:
- no force authorization and no weapons, can only issue citations - these would be your beat cops pulling people over, directing traffic, and responding to minor disputes
- detectives - no force authorization, but can investigate crimes - these show up after the crime to collect evidence
- armed enforcers - can arrest and use lethal force, and only show up if the first two groups can’t handle it; this is what we have today, but ideally would be a much smaller group than 1
The cybercrime division would fall under group 2, and would probably be just one or two people trained on that type of detective work.
Each tier should have a different uniform, so the public knows exactly who they’re dealing with, and each tier would be required to have body cam footage live-streamed to HQ. The first group makes up the biggest part of your force, and which is bigger between 2 and 3 depends on the types of crime that are prevalent in your area.
It’s not a funding issue, it’s a priorities issue
I guess the police at least are able to order Facebook to remove it (sounds like that’s what happened) but then yeah, as you say, I expect they will have just escalated to the county/state police, if anything
If the FBI showed up at his office with an arrest warrant you better believe that shit would get fixed in a hurry.
If the FBI showed up at his office with an arrest warrant you better believe that shit would get fixed in a hurry.
But then the FBI would never do anything like that to billionaires.
I’m unable to comment further.
Buuuuuuuut…
Gotta go to where the customers are.
If Bayer can advertise on facebook, so should too, my neighbor be allowed.
This actually sounds like a reasonable question to ask.
Too little, too late, though, in classic Congress style
The Myanmar Rohingya genocide was nearly a decade ago now, and we’re somehow still at the “asking Mark nicely to do a better job of moderation” step, somehow
If it were you or me they wouldn’t ask, they’d raid. Different Justice system for the rich
Like be gives a fuck! He’s just gonna tell them what they want to hear and then he’s going back to making millions off of fakebook
Facebook is the drug. It’s addictive, mind altering, exploits dopamine hits, isolates individuals in bad circles, makes you spend longer on the toilet etc. It’s literally the blue pill.
