Tag: Facebook

Facebook makes its Reels icon undeletable at the bottom of its app.

Since Facebook Reels (Zuckerberg’s response to TikTok) has long been nothing but AI slop from anonymous engagement-harvesting accounts in undisclosed and unknowable locations, I decided to attempt to remove the Reels icon from the tab bar at the bottom of the Facebook app.

Silly me. There are several tutorials to tell you how to do this, making it look like it is possible, but Reels is not provided as one of the options to hide in the tab customization menu. I guess it makes too much money for the humanoid owner of the platform. 

Publishing of Intellectual Property without Permission: It’s unlawful in most places.

Publicly sharing a stolen image in a social media post that consists almost entirely of the stolen image is unlawful in most legal jurisdictions.

Adding a credit to or citing the originator doesn’t make it lawful without first getting permission to publish, and many such “credits” just name (often by a meaningless pseudonym or platform name) the immediately previous thief who unlawfully published the image elsewhere.

All of this is a win for platform owners like Mark Zuckerberg and a loss for the universe of people still purporting to know right from wrong. Zuckerberg is guilty of countless violations of ethical common sense and profits from the IP theft by the criminals using his platforms.