Maybe the headline should be "Meta opposed to proposed FTC ban on monetizing youth data".
> A Meta spokesperson told Ars that the FTC's proposed changes are "a political stunt," saying that the FTC gave Meta "no opportunity to discuss this new, totally unprecedented theory." Meta considers the FTC's proposed changes to the privacy order "a new low."
To be fair, the spokesperson's tone, and the insistence that they'll be fighting, does make them sound pretty pissed off.
That's why I don't work there though. Don't think the "rank and file" have much leg to stand on, its a decade of this shit.
You can safely think "Facebook wants me to think it thinks this" when a Spokesperson speaks.
You can safely think "Part of Facebook thinks this" when an individual employee speaks.
You can safely think "Facebook Corporate wants me to believe this" when an executive speaks.
All of these individuals speak for Facebook, because they are a part of the collective that is Facebook.
> “Mark Zuckerberg, our founder, chairman and CEO, is able to exercise voting rights with respect to a majority of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock and therefore has the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including the election of directors and any merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets." [1]
And forget about rank-and-file; Zuckerberg overrides decisions of senior management...
> During a company meeting this month, Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth said Zuckerberg made some hires over the “objections” of senior executives — and sometimes rebuffed their advice in order to fire people, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private company matters. [2]
[1] http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801/45290cc0...
[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-mark-zuckerber...
Treat Corporate as the brain, the PR department as the voice, and that's "what the corporation thinks"
The rest of the collective doesn't matter basically at all for this.
Interestingly enough, that is in fact basically what the first few paragraphs of the article say pretty clearly. How this kind of headline exists in a tech driven publication who knows right.
In the same way that an agency can propose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
Corporations can act through their agents. Corporations cannot feel their agents’ emotions because they are unable to feel.
For some remote first companies that communicate primarily through platforms like Slack or email, this should be trivial to do.