A former Meta employee testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, alleging that the Facebook and Instagram parent company was aware of harassment and other harms facing teens on its platforms but failed to address them.
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If protecting teen safety was not generating a profit or avoiding a cost, they would have no incentive to do so.

This is not a defence of them but a comment on the lack of regulation they operate under.

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Yeah. On the one hand, fuck all the evil fucks at meta. On the other, we need to stop pretending the private sector is going to make rules and frameworks to protect anyone. We all know that private capital is not capable of behaving ethically unless directed to at the barrel of a gun.

It shouldn’t be that way. We should be able to trust that people will behave ethically. But we can’t. They won’t. They are unethical and like being that way. They’re monsters and have no intention to be otherwise.

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