m-p{3}CBC, media groups ask Competition Bureau to investigate Meta's move to block news in Canada
Orcocracy [comrade/them]I really don’t understand the people who (on an open source social media platform of all places!) rush to defend Meta/Facebook on bill C-18. Any action taken against Facebook’s power in society, no matter how flawed, is inherently good.
EhForumUserI really don’t understand the people who rush to defend Meta/Facebook on bill C-18.
Because it is what is most likely to provoke a reaction? Like all internet comments, the words aren’t grounded in anything. They are crafted such that they attempt to get something back in return (a reply, a vote, etc.) If you want to learn what people really think, you need to find a way into their private journal (without them knowing, else you will influence the activity). As soon as other people become involved, the motivations change.
(on an open source social media platform of all places!)
Well, if Lemmy ever becomes popular, it too will become subject to the same law. Open source especially doesn’t like such encumberments. This surprises you, why?
No it wouldn’t.
Bill C-18 clearly includes Lemmy in theory, only excluding it by virtue of it not being considered dominant. That could change some day should it ever become popular.
Human behaviour is always perfectly transactional, and observably so, as much as the humans don’t want to admit to it.
Please take this as friendly advice: you appear to be describing a dangerous view of social relationships and this could get you in some potentially very serious trouble with the people around you. Please, do not treat your relationships with other people as transactional.
If someone is going to cause trouble because of some words someone said, they are mentally unwell and best steered clear of anyway. I do hope they are able to find the support they need to overcome their issues, but I need not be a medical practitioner.
Yes, you might want to speak to a psychologist or psychotherapist before you hurt someone.
What’s the risk? I get murdered by a madman because I uttered some insignificant words they weren’t able to process correctly? If that’s the risk, it sounds like I should be talking the police, not a psychologist or psychotherapist.
I’m trying to be delicate, but the misguided rhetoric you are advocating is commonly used to justify violent, psychopathic, and misogynistic behaviour. You need to stop thinking of human social relationships as transactional. They are not. You could really hurt someone if this is genuinely what you believe.
but the misguided rhetoric you are advocating is commonly used to justify violent, psychopathic, and misogynistic behaviour.
I am afraid that doesn’t stand up to reason.
I accept that the mentally unwell can twist anything into justifying whatever anti-social act they please, but that is well beyond any relevance that exists with respect to the conversation here.
At second glance, I guess what you are trying to say is that you are the one who is about to irrationally burst out in a fit of rage because you cannot appropriately process a set of words? I’ll be happy to point the police in your direction if that is your concern. They can help protect whomever it is your think you are going to hurt.
You need to stop thinking of human social relationships as transactional.
I don’t. Even if it is not true, thinking it is true affects nothing.
They are not.
Of course, they are. It is well understood that the brain operates on a reward system.
You could really hurt someone if this is genuinely what you believe.
Well, no, technically it would be you who ends up hurting someone if the above is true.