> If you have an issue with this, disable javascript and cookies on your browser - take some personal responsibility
This is a problematic attitude. It's the car dealer telling the lemon [1] buyer to "take personal responsibility" for being sold junk.
The point of government is we don't stand alone. Facebook is a menace, and I block them. But I shouldn't have to. And neither should my mother.
> it’s hypocritical to only have a problem with Facebook when Google is doing it on a scale that Facebook can only imagine
Whatabout whatabout [2]? "You can't arrest me because there is another arsonist in town" isn't a valid excuse.
(In any case, third parties calling out some, but not all, bad actors in a category isn't hypocrisy. It's prioritization. Hypocrisy would be Google calling out Facebook's advertising model, or an Enron executive criticising Facebook employees' complicity.)
This is a problematic attitude. It's the car dealer telling the lemon [1] buyer to "take personal responsibility" for being sold junk.
The point of government is we don't stand alone. Facebook is a menace, and I block them. But I shouldn't have to. And neither should my mother.
> it’s hypocritical to only have a problem with Facebook when Google is doing it on a scale that Facebook can only imagine
Whatabout whatabout [2]? "You can't arrest me because there is another arsonist in town" isn't a valid excuse.
(In any case, third parties calling out some, but not all, bad actors in a category isn't hypocrisy. It's prioritization. Hypocrisy would be Google calling out Facebook's advertising model, or an Enron executive criticising Facebook employees' complicity.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_%28automobile%29
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism