Kevin Karhan 
Yeah, #Oreilly predicted #AntisocialMedia like #StasiBook to rise...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyJBJTHyO0&t=1051s video via @tantacrul
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And yeah, stuff using #Facebook logins was already a big red flag back then.
- But then again I'm the kind of person that refused to use #BlueStacks when they didn't enable #eMail login.
That being said demanding a login isn't somcething I'd accept today anymore!
- Video via @tantacrul
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
@tantacrul I couldn't bear ever making a #StasiBook account...
- So I guess I dodged not a bullet, but rather a grand slam bomb.
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
@tantacrul And when I looked up #Facebook's ToS it took me mere seconds to recoil in disgust and "NOPE!" that shit...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
#Zuckerberg doesn't understand or rather doesn't give a fuck why people feel violated by his shitsite!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
So yeah, #Facebook became #AntisocialMedia!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyJBJTHyO0&t=3006s via @tantacrul
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
...and it's really dead...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
What we know from #Facebook being the #unmoderated #DumpsterFire in terms of #politics is that their "#neutrality" empowers #aggressors like #Disinformation campaigns from #Russia and will amplify #racists, #fascists and #reactionaries with their #RageBait and #Hatespeech!
- Or does anyone expect #TrollFarms that "#FloodTheZoneWithShit" to actually use their real names on #ShitBook?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyJBJTHyO0&t=4747s video via @tantacrul
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
@tantacrul the funny part is that I remember folks dismissing #CambridgeAnalytica but that's just the scandal we know of...
- Now imagine what a few carefully-planted attackers on behalf of nations could do...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
I'm glad #Facebook's #ZeroRating shitshow got banned in many places...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
And yes, #Facebook is directly responsible for the #RohyingaGenocide in #Burma aka. #Myanmar!
- Without #FreeBasics and the complete unwillingless to even fake any attempts of #moderation, there would not have been such widespread #disinformation and #hatespeech around to commit said #democide & #genocide against the #Rohyinga !
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
No wounder #Zoomers are so fucked-up:
5-year olds having #Instagram accounts is as healthy to them as showing Deathwatch to some 7-yr old kid or giving 9 year olds a HDD with Terabytes of Pr0n.
- Like seriously, not gonna argue for at-best-faulty #AgeVerification - style #Cyberfascism but at least #parents should teach some basic #MediaLiteracy FFS!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
In my eyes, #Facebook is worse than #KiwiFarms by virtue of not being some shitty outcast's forum where a dozen people are #hategrooming each other, but a "#Normie" Site that chose to not just #platform, but #amplify #disinformation and #hatespeech, because #Zuck said so!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
And this is the moment #Facebook decided to abandon any commitment to #truth, #integrity or #moderation because by that logic all someone needs to be bulletproof from #moderators is getting any sort of political office, candidacy or party membership and thus they can spout the wildest bs and never face any repercussions whatsoever!
At which point does this make them a criminal enterprise, @Bundesregierung ?
- When they openly platform and boost holocaust deniers??
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
I mean, it's just absurd how #Facebook actively demolished any #moderation team they had on purpose...
- So the 2024 #US elections were basically flooded with #disinformation by bad actors foreign and espechally domestic.
Nowadays we see #Zuck succ Trumps boot hard af!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
#TheFacebookFiles are sadly nothing new - it's just #evidence that they are evil!
- Seriously...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
To anyone who didn't live under the rock or completely airgapped, #Facebook being evil was as much of news as "RT spreading lies and transmisogynist hatespeech" or "rain is wet"...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
What a #spineless excuse for a human being...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
Like I don't have nor ever had a #Facebook account but none of this was new or surprising at all to me...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
But in return, #KOSA, like #FOSTA & #SESTA, is one of the worst things the #US made as legislation in my lifetime - if not ever in it's existance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPyJBJTHyO0&t=8253s
Because it's some half-baked "But we're doing something!" activism without banning #Facebook's business practises of pushing #manipulative content and #disinformation - espechally towards minors!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
The fact that #TedCruz is right on this one is still fascinating. cuz otherwise he's a POS!
- Granted there is no legitimate reason to host, display of share #CSAM - espechally not for #Facebook.
The most they would have an interest in is reporting confirmed CSAM to the LEAs of the users' location, removing it and adding the checksum of said content to their already existing #UploadFilters.
- Just like even search engines for @torproject / #Tor do hash-based blocklists for that...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
#Section230 / #OCILLA / #DMCA would only cover #Facebook's ass until the point they got informed about the offending content...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
And yes, #Facebook is knowingly and willingfully hosting illegal content...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
Obviously I'm not gonna blame @tantacrul for missing #NetzDG at that point cuz it's #Germany-specific and didn't get much international coverage either, except when #Trump's regime decried it as #censorship because it means that Holocaust Deniers don't get recommended and their content #geoblocked by #GAFAMs...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
If the #holoLens wasn't an overpriced, bulky, #Windows-Only #AR headset I would've considered dabbling in it.
- But it's like *worse than the #AppleVisionPro which already is a #DumpsterFire!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
And #Zuckerberg refusing to do #interviews with anyone who isn't giving him a good succ is in my eyes really shallow and a huge red flag of a #cyberfascist #dictator unwilling to face #opposition...
- #Zuck is a #TechBro and thus doesn't like #criticism!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
So yeah, #Zuck is only doing "#circlejerking" in public...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
So yeah, that warning @tantacrul added is warranted!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
Seriously, for #PayOrOkay being banned I've seen a shitload of sites still doing that.
- Who can I report offending sites to?
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
The main propblem that I see with #DSA violations is the fact that "If the penalty for a crime is a fine, it's only illegal for the poor!", meaning that #NSAbook / #StasiBook will see violating #DataProtection as a mere "#BusinessExpense" in the #EU as none of the Execs get arrested, jailed or even wanted for questioning.
- If I'd have the same nonchalant attitude towards #laws, @Bundesregierung would push for prosecution and courts to declare such a business run by me a "criminal enterprise" and seize all the assets it has...
Video via @tantacrul
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
Seriously, #Facebook abusing their #users as #AI #sources and maximizing #DarkPatterns is not coincidential, and I wounder how people who don't have or want a Facebook account can actually object against that shit or #ShadowProfiles without #SelfDoxxing and gambling on #StasiBook having good vibes that day...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
Maximizing friction is not an accident but desired #DarkPattern!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
Obviously #LLama was trained on private comms of #Facebook & #WhatsApp.
- Why else would they use said data for in "#AI"...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
Obviously a #business with #Thiel involved is gonna be a net negative because #PeterThiel doesn't believe in #competition but wants #monopolies!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
Granted, gambling that #Facebook / #NSAbook / #StasiBook won't make "a better copy" of your business is a terrible idea!
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
#FloodTheZoneWithShit is now "#AI powered"...
A History of Facebook's (& Meta's) Decline
..and that's the digital equivalent of robbing an unconcious person in a hospital...