A stark example of how digital footprints will be utilized in a post-Roe America

The article is from Aug 10, 2022 but remains relevant

  • xuxebikoOP
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    11 year ago

    Thanks to Citizens United, corporations are people. But people are not corporations.

    They do not have an army of corporate attorneys, nor do they employ lobbying firms to buy political support, nor do they have enormous wealth to fall back on. People simply do not enjoy the protections corporations do. Yet its regular people who frequently take a stand against wrong, and not multi-billion corporations.

    Facebook/Meta, a corporate with tremendous resources, made promises about defending access to reproductive healthcare in a post-Roe world and it should be questioned for failing to keep their word. Getting personal (like you just did with @Kichae) just shifts responsibility away from facebook/meta for its actions.

    • BraveSirZaphod
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      11 year ago

      Regardless, there are very much actual people within Meta that can and would be held legally liable for refusing to comply with a valid warrant, up to and including going to jail.

      I agree that there are plenty to things to criticize Meta for. They could do a lot more to educate users about what privacy they do or don’t have and the legal consequences of that. They could direct more people to Messenger’s private mode, which is end-to-end encrypted. I don’t think the act of complying with a warrant is something that I would really hold against them though, because 99% of people would do the same thing.