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by codespin 1504 days ago
That's a thought provoking way to put it. Part of the problem is however that only internal employees fully understand the destruction that was going on.
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Only former employees were fully complicit.

Anyone with a critical view of these organizations has seen exactly the extent of the harm. The endless news releases should be an adequate trail to follow.

People, at large, have chosen to ignore all the unbelievable actions so they can continue to stalk others online -cough cough- I mean, keep in touch with grandma.

Intimate familiarity with how you started a fire doesn't necessarily correlate with the skills to put it out.
... But can help others put it out. "It's a chemical fire" leads to people putting it out with a radically different substance.
It's always funny to see how defensive people get about criticism. More that likely this 'fix' for social media will either fail or just end up being another social media platform with the aim of attracting engagement and selling user data / screen time for ad space.
sure but in general i feel like it would help a lot