Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation

The fact that Harvard bent over for a “donation” is just pathetic. They have a $50bn endowment. What is even the point of having that much money if not to be uncompromising on academic freedom?
- I dunno if you've heard this, but under capitalism, more > less. And they got 1% more!
  Harvard has been unethical in many cases in the name of growing their endowment. As if they were a corporation beholden to shareholders. Harvard Has a Brand Problem. Here’s How to Fix It.
- How do you think they got said $50bn endowment

Imagine how damning their behavior must be that they paid half a billion to cover it up. 10,000 people in the US could live comfortably for a year on this single hush money payment.
- Well, it has been criminal in several uniquely terrible ways for an incredibly long time. 500M to save on 1B in fines is reasonable being that Facebook is nearly dead in Europe and needs the US far more than it used to.

No college has real prestige.
They're all just political book clubs.
- South Harmon Institute of Technology though
  
  It's got that rizz, no cap. Bet.

The poison of personal data collection is too great for any company with any amount of tech to ignore. Profit on data sales must have crazy high margins or it must be so easy to do that you might as well. We needed regulations on this 20 years ago. Now who knows how many dark hats know you fucked Shelley in the back of your 2020 Subaru. It should have never gotten here in the first place. Now it will take some C Suite with way too much power and not a shred of responsibility to have his vile conversation on how poor people should die and women are objects for this to get 1/3rd of the regulation it should have.
- I agree.
  But no one knows about Shelley because I've never posted about it. .
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  DAMMIT! 🤣
  
  Wait what? You too?

Academia should be investigated by a new division of special authorities
- Ron Desantis is already on it. Careful what you wish for
- And what should the outcome be? No more higher education?
- Could this new division wear brown shirts, please? Perhaps the books could be burnt in the streets.
  
  They did the putsch, it was a Nazi putsch. They did the putsch, it was a beer hall putsch. Wah oooooooooo. Wah oooooooo.

Stop using facebook/meta, Instagram, Whatsapp. You're giving them power by using their services. Use alternatives like Friendica, PixelFed, or Signal.
- That's all well and good, but if you think that Facebook isn't mirroring all data from the Fediverse, and any other network it can touch, and then correlating what it can back to whatever individual/digital/personal profiles it can, you'd be mistaken.
  The only solution here is a political one with significant judicial punishment as the enforcement mechanism. FYI I'm also including the guillotine in the list of nonviable solutions, as the problem is too large and geographically vast to behead our way out of it, even if it would be cathartic.
  
  Can we have a little beheading as a treat?
  
  while I agree they are probably doing this and we should have better data privacy/ownership, the scope of the data they can pull from the fediverse is substantially less than what they get from their platform.
  when you're on Facebook, they control and track everything. which posts you see, which you don't, and in what order, how long you looked at a given post, whether or not you scrolled through comments, every movement of your mouse, everything you typed and deleted in that text box, where on the screen you touched while you dragged to scroll, what text you highlighted, absolutely everything.
  the only data they can probably pull from the fediverse is posts, comments, and like/dislike. maybe which posts you clicked into if that's public and I'm pretty sure they can't get which posts were shown to you without owning the instance you're on.
  
  Nearly everyone has a shadow account if you know someone that uses it.