[delecti]

There's always a larger context though. Who cares about Facebook or Google when the NSA is tracking everything we do? Who cares about anyone being tracked when the global climate is on track to destabilize society? Who cares about society when we're not doing anything about the inevitable heat death of the universe?

Pointing out the larger context isn't automatically helpful. I believe the GP's comment is an example of unhelpful whataboutism.

[50656E6973]

>Who cares about Facebook or Google when the NSA is tracking everything we do? Who cares about anyone being tracked when the global climate is on track to destabilize society? Who cares about society when we're not doing anything about the inevitable heat death of the universe?

Your hyperbole isn't helping anything, and you still havent explained why delecti shouldnt point out the similar practices of other companies like GOOG.

NSA tracking could be considered relevant, seeing as how they get much of their data from FB and GOOG tracking, but you're being silly and disengenuous by asking what about climate change and physics being relevant, that's an obvious strawman argument that isn't even close to what delecti or anyone here is talking about.

[delecti]

Calling out google's practices is valid, but doing it in a thread about facebook's practices is whataboutism. It's just not on-topic.

[50656E6973]

You're wrong, that's not whataboutism.

>Whataboutism (also known as whataboutery) is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument,[1][2][3] which in the United States is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda.

OP did not "attempt to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy". Please stop trying to stifle genuine intellectual discussion with erroneous assertions.