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CincyDem

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8. Never forget who Facebook is at their core...

Reply to Vinca (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 3, 2021, 09:16 AM

Oct 2021

...a bunch of college kids hacking into the registrar's offices to download picture of female students to rate them as "hot or not".

Money makes good people better and bad people worse. FB stared out in the bad people camp and have never been held accountable for it since. So it should come as no surprise they're a part of any and all things sleasy...as long as they can make a buck.

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