> It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash, “designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students,”
Wow if that's the opener, I expect the rest to be SUPER emotionally charged
Wow if that's the opener, I expect the rest to be SUPER emotionally charged
In case of Facebook, it was originally designed literally to compare the attractiveness of female students; but no, it’s not even remotely as bad, and comparing it to the Holocaust trivializes an incident where masses of people were murdered in an industrial fashion.
Possibly the point the author is making is that Zuckerberg never had an original idea or one that could be the subject of a business plan. He copied the "Hot or Not" websites that had come before. Further, the photos of students used for his "Facemash" website, i.e., the "content", were downloaded from the university's computers, not uploaded to Zuckerberg's computer. Initially, he downloaded and used students' photos without permission.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250115010420if_/https://www.th...
This pattern continued when he copied the idea of an online "face book" for the university which the university was already working on; adopting the name "thefacebook.com".
From the document production in Kadrey v Meta, it appears the pattern of copying still continues. Meta is still downloading and using others' work. Initially, without permission.
Comparing copyright infringment to assisting genocide is absurd. Although Meta may have assisted in ethnic cleansing
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/08/myanmar-time-...
there is no reference to it in the article. Perhaps because, unlike the story of "Facemash", it bears no relation to the subject matter: copyright infringment.
The next paragraph...
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/facebook-instagram-meta-...
Haven’t tried it yet
In other words, unless you believe Facebook is part of State or acts on behalf of the State, “you don’t get to shut down hate speech” is mereley your sentiment, not something Constitution requires from them.
If Mark Z actually called hate speech “protected speech”, it is something he is free to do, but Facebook is also completely free to suppress hate speech.
* https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/column-applying-constitutio...
"Billionaire oligarchs" only became a problem when a few of them became neutral or moderately right-wing.
It's the "anything can be a slur is you say it with enough hate" thing. You're just giving a name to the group targeted by it. The content isn't the thing that matters, it's the dehumanization and harassment.
From adults, yes
This should get to the heart of it: what biological reality are the leftists discussing trans issues denying?
I’ll also respond.
> There are indeed people and whole groups that will call you transphobic if you do suggest certain things about sexual dimorphism between men and women
I expect such people would call you misogynist, not transphobic. I also think it’s mostly down to delivery. People who have issues with trans people often talk about these things in certain ways, so people assume anyone who talks in such a way is a transphobe.
> if you at all question the idea of often very suggestible adolescents being easily allowed to go through the process of gender reassignment
It’s not easy to my knowledge. Adolescents are never given sex change operations, those aren’t even typically given to minors. The interventions are limited to puberty blockers, which are highly reversible, hormones, which they receive after years of therapy to confirm it’s not just a phase, suggestion, etc. and which can still be largely reversed, and social transition, (dressing/presenting as the opposite sex) which hopefully anyone would be fine with. Which part of this process do you find contentious and why? Again, I’m happy to discuss this, and there’s nothing wrong with asking questions about it. In fact, I think it’s extremely important to ask questions about this because it may help to protect children. The issue is that I mostly see people bring this up not because they know something about this process and dislike it, but because they don’t think people should be trans.