They were faster. At the computers at the time.

They also transmitted data faster, at the internet at the time.

One thing they didn’t do was to allow for meetings. You’d need to go as far as Skype for that. Yeah, Skype worked faster and transmitted data faster, but MS brought it and now it doesn’t.

Also, the other thing they didn’t do was to share your calendar with Outlook. Teams actually doesn’t do that one well, and there are some groupware software that work better (none from MS), but you’ll be getting into the deep woods of software your security team never heard about.

They suddenly showing select videos more times than they have users on the country.

The evidence needed is to determine who exactly and why. The what is very clear.

Apparently, Meta has just taken part in a huge destabilizing propaganda campaign here in Brazil. The kind that criminal law has punishment for.

It will certainly take a while to gather all evidence and verify it, so I’m saving the popcorn for later. But I just ensured I have enough kernel for a US-sized portion…

It’s way less innocuous than you think.

But yeah, it’s only the stuff that you’d expect it to send. And only the stuff it needs to send. But the thing is, the valuable data those social networks gather is almost exactly that. They will invade your privacy and get everything they can, but the real value is on that and what you read. (What you read isn’t shared here.)

Lemmy doesn’t have the censorship and speech-control from those platforms, but it pretty much distributes your data widely to anybody that asks for it.

I’m not sure China wants westerns using their internal propaganda app. Mixing the internal and external propaganda quickly leads to absurdities.