Meta has the money to burn, 1. it’s easier to fight all this in court after having done it rather than to ask for permission from all the publishers beforehand.
2. sadly oftentimes the fines are minuscule when big tech does wrong.
3. CEOs in big tech don’t have or listen to morality, they have “sold their soul” so to say a long time ago
It’s interesting the stuff that Meta gets away with under Zuckerberg’s direction, where other CEOs would be under intense scrutiny or already behind bars.
There is a huge gap between someone pirating a book and one of the richest corporations on the planet pirating seven million books to train their for-profit stuff on.
