ThijmerJun 11, 2025

Why can #Zucc at #Meta just spy on everyone without their consent and illegally collect their browsing history, and when it comes to light people call it a "privacy violation" and say "I didn't have any privacy to begin with so IDC" and they just get a fine that's insignificant to them but if an individual spies on someone, it's called stalking and everyone (rightfully) agrees that it's fucking creepy and perverted and they should go to prison for a very long time.

Why can't we sue the Zucc for stalking and have him go to prison for the rest of his life for stalking millions and millions of people?

Show threadYet another Josh 

@trogluur

Because ALL crime and punishment is #political. And power isn't held to the same standard as the rest of us.

#Wagetheft (employer cuts time illegally from worker time cards) is the largest theft type, even when adding all other theft together.

Steal $100 from the register? You get arrested and criminal matter.

Employer steals from employee $100 by manipulating time cards? Oh that's a civil matter. Hope you can afford a lawsuit and loss of your job.

Murder is also a #socialconstruct.

If you poison someone else and they die, its murder.

If you make policy that leeches lead and poisons a whole city, and kills many, you get a governorship in Michigan, and a fellow at Harvard.

Jun 11, 2025 at 12:27pmWeb
Show threadThijmerJun 11, 2025
@crankylinuxuser Thanks for the explaination. That's so unfair! It sucks and it makes me sad and angry. Is there anything we can do about this?
Show threadYet another Josh Jun 11, 2025

@trogluur

Power has been mostly immune to actual criminal actions, except when power attacks and harms others with power (like Bernie Madoff or Elizabeth Holmes).

Also, things like "corporate veil" and similar social constructs make it look like a company did wrong, and those are almost always a civil matter. Usually, the company will pay out $5 per person in a suit, lawyers get a pound of flesh, and company doesn't admit wrongdoing.

Pushing local legislators to criminalize wage theft would be a superb start, for example. Not sure if that's been tried, but it would finally illegalize a completely legal form of theft.

There's probably more extreme actions, which would undoubtedly be illegal. Again, actual power taken by the citizenry is almost always illegal, but legal when done by the elite. (public protest in streets VS donor supper with lobbyists).

I can say what seems terrible. But as a single person, I don't have any good solutions.