“Senator, we run ads.” —Mark Zuckerberg to Congress, 2018

Gotta go to where the customers are.

If Bayer can advertise on facebook, so should too, my neighbor be allowed.

I’m more concerned with the drug dealers advertising on TV.

But why politicians spread propaganda on social networks? Drug dealers should ask them.

Wake me up when the “Congress” actually decides to take actions not just ask “questions” after the damage is done and money is made.

Seems more like election season shenanigans where the government wants to make a last bit effort of making it seem like they’re doing their job but then nothing happens after. Like clockwork.

[raises hand] I know why. It’s because Meta is a trash hole and lives to exploit people.

Shit, this winter, for 3 days strait, i got ads with literal swinging dicks and full on penetration. Reported ads, and moved on. After day three, i deleted the app and only launched from a sandboxed browser with an ad blocker.

Now, i only open it for the marketplace. The place was cancer anyhow, but that was just too much.

This actually sounds like a reasonable question to ask.

Like be gives a fuck! He’s just gonna tell them what they want to hear and then he’s going back to making millions off of fakebook

If the FBI showed up at his office with an arrest warrant you better believe that shit would get fixed in a hurry.

Zuck should ask congress why they’re violently maintaining prohibition despite it being an inherently murderous and racist failure.

Meta appears to have continued to shirk its social responsibility

Why would anyone assume Meta cares about any form of “social responsibility”? They’re an ad company that wants to hoover up your data so they can maximize the profit from the ad space they sell. That’s it. Anything they do that’s “socially responsible” is to get people to use their platform so they can sell more ad space.

So the answer to this question is simple: it makes money. It’s really that simple. As long as they don’t sell drugs directly, they’re not really breaking any laws, at least not any laws that can’t be dismissed with plausible deniability.

And honestly, I don’t have a problem with it. I think most drugs should be legal for recreational use, provided people get drugs through legal means. The problem then simplifies to ensuring drug distribution is done legally (i.e. harder drugs should only be used w/ supervision, limits on total amount sold to an individual, etc), and tax revenue can be used for rehab. I think that’s a much better approach than bans, because we can now track users and bake remediation into the system.

I absolutely hate everything about Meta, but blocking ads for drugs isn’t a real solution. I highly doubt people are using because they saw an ad on Facebook or Instagram, so the problem here isn’t about the ads, but about distribution.

Facebook is the drug. It’s addictive, mind altering, exploits dopamine hits, isolates individuals in bad circles, makes you spend longer on the toilet etc. It’s literally the blue pill.

“well, because they want to sell their products. isn’t that obvious?”

Facebook coke and E. Ehhhh that’s gotta be like asking for as much fentanyl cut in as possible.