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by DisownedWheat 2987 days ago
> It's not facebook's fault people are uninterested and uneducated. Every company has one responsibility and one responsibility only - to make money for investors.

I 100% disagree with this statement. It's the equivalent of saying "A human has one responsibility and one responsibility only - stay alive" to hand-wave away criminal activity. Is BP not responsible for their oil spill in the Gulf because they still make money? Should pharmaceutical companies not have to put side effects on their product labels because the consumer should have educated themselves on how these chemicals affect your body?

I get that companies have been doing this for a long time and people should know this, but it hasn't been happening on this scale before, nor with the amount of computing power we have today to do some frankly frightening things.