You cannot understand fragments of sentences without reading the rest of them.

I’ve never said that and I don’t think that.
I don’t understand why people invent quotes. Try engaging with what people actually say?

It shouldn’t be a surprise that that turned into cases that didn’t get through the courts. It turned into government lawyers making fools of themselves claiming that Instagram didn’t compete with TikTok and WhatsApp didn’t compete with iMessage.

I have a lot of sympathy for the idea US competition law is too narrowly focused on low prices, and some for arguments for more competition in tech. But a lot of of this agenda was based on poor analysis & poor understanding. Remember that House anti-trust report full of basic factual mistakes?

But as Jonathan Swift tells us, you can’t reason someone out of an idea that they weren’t reasoned into. The people who would need to read the book aren’t willing to learn.

The funny thing about this thread is all the people who are very toxic, very sure they're right, and say things that ten seconds in Google would have shown them aren't true. There are still people who believe in Cambridge Analytica!

You should read that link. For the first time. Then you would know that Cambridge Analytica didn't buy data from Facebook.

Yes, she's the only person who still believes Cambridge Analytica was a thing, bless her.

Yes, 'sells data' and doesn't sell data' are the same thing and you have to be pedantic to suggest that's kind of a convoluted piece of logic

Cambridge Analytics did not buy data from Facebook, didn't actually do anything, and is best thought of as a hoax.

Ten seconds in Google would have told you this. You're so sure, and so wrong, and never even once bothered to look. Do you still think MMR causes autism, too?

'Selling your data' and 'not selling your data' are the same thing. Sure.

No, they don't so that.
Imagine having such strong opinions about something you've never bothered to spend any time at all looking at

This is untrue. Ten seconds in Google would have told you this. You're so sure, and so wrong, and never even once bothered to look.

This is untrue. Ten seconds in Google would have told you this. You're so sure, and so wrong, and never even once bothered to look.

Generally, in the English language, if I sell you something, then you have it.

In your usage, if you give me money and I do not give you X, then I have sold you X.

At best, that's a wild abuse of language, and there is 'no universe' in which that's the only meaning.

It's self-selection of idiots

This is hilarious
I said that SF is a small place with not much going on... and the local newspaper wrote a story about it. It proved my point just absolutely perfectly.
But also... it's been a decade, and you still care so much that a total stranger didn't like SF, and yet you never realised this?

There are two different questions
Does Facebook sell your data? No. People insisting on this are simply idiots.
Does it have data? Well yes, that's how it works. But what data? Why do you care? is it sensitive data? Does it matter? It depends, and it's not an absolute.

Also - wow, what a lot of really toxic people left Twitter for Bluesky.