Andrew Forrest’s legal battle to hold social media giant Meta to account over the proliferation of scam ads using his likeness on Facebook has been dealt a major blow.

Man, first the Stokes Stoush, now the facebook right hook. Twiggys making enemies with all the big media companies.

I haven’t read why the public prosecutor isn’t pursuing this. I’m sure it’ll be some reasonable reason due to some legislation the prosecutors can’t get around. Or something to that effect.

But this case seems emblimatic of the corporate geared legislative structure the five-eyes countries citizens have had foisted upon them. Yet again an obviously in the wrong company is walking away laughing as their pockets jingle, while the damage caused by their products to third parties goes largely unrestrained. Do we really want to carry on down this path?

For context this morning i’ve also been listening to Ralph Nader, so thats where my minds at right now.

Link to the episode, if people want to listen: https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/ralph-naders-capitalism

  • No1@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Let’s say a picture of you or I was used for scam ads.

    What do you reckon the chances would be of the cops or Commonwealth prosecutors ever giving a shit about it and even initially starting a case against a corporate giant like Meta?

    Yet, they did it for Twiggy. Even though it was a waste of money and time.

    Now, I guess,.he gets to use all that and start a private lawsuit. Which you or I could never afford against Meta…

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOP
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, totally agree the cops or prosecutors won’t do anything for joe blow in a situation like this. But thats why its so wrong and the rules of the game need to change.

      It doesn’t matter the wealth of the person bringing the case, they are the aggreived party, therefore he has a right, and in the end, if they make progress it sets precedent strengthening others claims.

      And also what has the public prosecutor done for Forrest withbthwir involvement? The article didn’t go into detail, it seems his lawyers triggered something that federals had to get involved in, but then at the first opportunity they’ve come back saying ‘yeah nah, we not gona take this further.’

      What am i missing here? I suppose the details of the Australian proceedings would shed more light.

  • theroff@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Trying to talk to a human at the big tech companies is nigh impossible these days. It’s actually quite concerning how unaccountable they have become. If a billionaire can’t do it, what chance do us commoners have?

  • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    claiming the trillion-dollar company had blatantly refused to address fraudulent content on its site

    Probably dropped the suit because that’s obviously bullshit.

    The fact is Meta has human review teams that check millions of posts every day and a large number of those are removed. You can certainly argue over wether or not they’re deleting the right posts, but the idea that they “refuse to address fraudulent content” is honestly ridiculous.

    The second issue is Forest is campaigning for law reforms around this issue. The courts want nothing to do with that. They interpret existing laws and have zero involvement in writing new ones.

    This whole thing looks like a massive waste of the court’s time. Which also, by the way, is a waste of tax payer money.