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RE: hachyderm.io/@pheonix/11622180…

#Meta only exists for two reasons:

- Money
- Info gathering on everyone for reason 1


Is this the first time a major service has removed end-to-end encryption instead of adding it? Why Instagram?

#instagram #socialmedia #privacy #infosec #technology #enshittification


#meta
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I have my doubts they ever did it to begin with. And before a whistle blower came out about it they say this to “save face”
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In the USA we now have the added influence of:

3 - do what government (ie the Trump dynasty) wants in order to continue pursuing 1

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I wonder if they could make any money selling people’s information? 🤔
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I would also like to suggest there can be a more malign motivation to this.

They are getting rid of it in order to deploy pervasive surveillance. In other words to remove of somewhat secure communication channel to coordinate political movement.

Facebook is openly declaring that they are dismantling any mechanism for social organization and are preparing the platform for total surveillance

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And of the major tech companies the easiest to totally disengage with.
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Three… - the continuing illusion of solving a self worth problem for the one who developed the original facebook application.
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it was never E2EE in the first place. They always had access themselves. Probably doing this to stave off future liability.
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Thus, why I am not on Facebook (left it years ago) and refused to start an Instagram account. I know I'm still getting spied on by other means, but I can at least limit the damage from Zuckerberg's crew.
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@pheonix

Thinking cynically, Meta enabled E2EE so they could ride the goodwill of enabling it. A short wait meant more users, enhancing the social network lock-in. Now they can disable it to get more data, and if you want to leave, even more people are sucked in whom you have to convince to leave.

With everything we know about Meta, I have faith this strategy was laid out in an internal document somewhere.

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Capitalism spells out its goals:

pro:fit

over

am:a:unfit

We don't need no stinkin' future generations!..

*sigh*

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with Meta being in full support of the fascist regime take over in the us, it seems ominous that they choose the 8. of May.
As the 8.5.1945 was the end of the fascist regime in Germany...