[HN Gopher] Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users u...
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Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users unfollow
everything
Author : rntn
Score : 12 points
Date : 2024-11-08 19:32 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| Terr_ wrote:
| It's really interesting to imagine what might happen if people
| had a legal right to filter their own digital experience without
| retaliation.
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| Sure, it might deepen some echo-chambers, but it also might curb
| the worst excesses of the advertisement/spyware economy.
| Terr_ wrote:
| P.S.: Some implicit aspects:
|
| 1. It would be something you can easily to assert to stop dumb
| lawsuits quickly without expense.
|
| 2. You can't blindly sign it away through click-wrap
| agreements.
|
| 3. It extends to helping others with the creation/sale of
| filtering tools, unofficial patches, and jailbreaks.
| Spivak wrote:
| Isn't this the dream of bluesky?
| Terr_ wrote:
| I don't think so: A federated network of social-media mini-
| sites doesn't really relate to things like blocking ads in
| your browser, automatically filtering out sections of
| radio/podcasts in your car that happen to contain siren
| noises, or a parent putting up barriers to adult content on a
| device.
| Spivak wrote:
| Are web not taking about being able to
| curate/moderate/filter your own feeds?
|
| Because one of Bluesky's goals is to have 3rd party
| filtering and moderation.
| SamvitJ wrote:
| Zuckerman vs. Zuckerberg, man vs. mountain...
| zeroonetwothree wrote:
| Courts don't like it when you waste their time suing over
| theoretical harms
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