I'm sure there's no connection between the Facebook antitrust lawsuit getting dismissed ( https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/judge-dismisses-ftc-antitrust-complaint-against-facebook.html ) and Facebook taking calls from the White House on who/what to censor ( https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1415725320381079569.html ).

This represents a victory over the forces of malarkey.
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@p I mean anyone that actually uses Facebook et al. at this point is too far gone/lost anyway.

@kino No argument, it's been shady forever. The news here is essentially open censorship of content the government doesn't like, and the almost certain back-room deal that lead to it. It's not really about Facebook, it's about the entire problem.

That was part of the whole deal with PRISM, it wasn't new and getting caught wasn't going to stop anyone. There wasn't any pushback from those businesses, because they do not care: they want to make money, assume they will sell anyone out for any reason. Authoritarians want control of the populace, they've got no compunctions about coercing businesses. (If you want to control everyone under threat of force, why would you blink at having your prosecutors control a business?) People are still using Google, people are still using Twitter, people are still using all of this shit, and it's essentially dooming the earth to state control of the media first (which is foreign state control of the media for anyone outside the US), and everything else follows, so "Well, that's Facebook for you" seems to miss the bigger picture.