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ai-x • today at 4:24 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

False analogies won't make your case.

There are plenty of happy, successful people who didn't die because they used a Meta product.

In fact I'd even argue that all things equal, a Meta user is happier than a paranoid-meta-hater who worries every minute that someone is going to serve them an Ad that fits them

"oh, the horror!!!. How am I ever going to recover from the trauma and financial ruin of seeing a targeted ad."


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lrvick • today at 4:42 PM

> There are plenty of happy, successful people who didn't die because they used a Meta product.

And plenty of teens that never became happy and successful people because they used a Meta product.

These companies are predatory, and have nothing to offer us we cannot easily setup at home these days with privacy and sovereignty.

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mrtesthah • today at 4:29 PM

>successful people who didn't die

Did you just move the goalposts to “it didn’t kill me”?

We’re talking about society-wide effects here, including harm to children for which Facebook is paying 17 billion dollars.

https://oag.dc.gov/release/attorney-general-schwalb-announce...

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