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From their point of view why wouldn't they, children become eyeballs, sorry adults with money to spend.

I've given up expecting corporations to be nice, I haven't quite given up on expecting them to obey the law, the bits they haven't written themselves anyway.

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B-but they had that rainbow flag avatar thingy for LGBTQA folk! They can’t be the bad guys!

Virtue signalling is profitable.

The sole purpose of existence of a corporation is to make money, and it would be strange to expect them to be nice and not use every opportunity for profit. Thus, enforcing ethics is a consumer responsibility: if you believe that something is bad, don't use it.

The sole purpose of getting a job is to make money and yet we expect our fellow citizens to have stronger morals than just greed.

People get lots of different jobs for lots of different reasons, some of which include money. I think your fellow citizens deserve a stronger consideration for their morals, choices, and concerns than that of a faceless, sociopathic megacorp like Facebook.

Except real people work at these places and make decisions to do shitty things.

Sure, but all you've proven is that people respond to incentives and that money is a strong one. Trying to assign moral value to the actions of a project manager who is under pressure for Q3 ad revenue is a fools errand.

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