by Enrique Dans

June 13, 2025

from Medium Website

Article also HERE

Spanish version

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meta...

Technology Company

or Association of Criminals?

 

 

 

I've said it countless times:

Meta is a catastrophe waiting to happen...!

The latest revelations prove we're not dealing with isolated mistakes but a corporate culture built on repeat offenses and impunity. No fine - 'no matter how hefty - 'can fix such a deeply embedded pattern of behavior.

The time has come to shut the company down and bring its founder and CEO to justice.

This company has gone beyond law breaking to outright obscenity.

 

TechCrunch recently revealed how the new Meta AI app turned users' private conversations into a public showcase, exposing audio, texts, and images - all under murky terms no one truly understood.

 

The fact that someone could ask the chatbot about tax evasion or share medical data and end up being watched by strangers is, quite simply, a violation of the most basic trust.

 

But its localhost scam is even more sinister.

Investigations in Europe performed by security researchers Tim Vlummens, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Nipuna Weerasekara, Gunes Acar and Aniketh Girish,

...uncovered how Facebook and Instagram opened hidden ports on users' phones to harvest cookies generated by the ubiquitous Meta Pixel - linking your entire browsing history to your real identity, even when you weren't logged in.

 

Naturally,

the company denied everything.

 

Meta only paused the system when its latest dirty tricks were exposed.

Break the rules first, ask permission later has been the company's go-to strategy since its inception - long before Cambridge Analytica.

Launch the violation, squeeze it for profit, and only backtrack when the media or regulators cry foul.

If in the past Meta survived record-breaking FTC fines or the €1.2 billion penalty from the EDPB, today it's using,

WebSockets, UDP ports, and WebRTC tunnels,

...to bypass even incognito mode.

 

No one is safe while this company is allowed to operate - its culture is too toxic to be tolerated.

 

The excuse of "OK, we've now disabled it" rings hollow when you review the history

every time a browser closed a door, Meta opened a window.

 

When Chrome introduced countermeasures, Meta's code morphed to stay alive.

These are not oversights:

this is a deliberate race against the law and people's privacy to colonize every corner of the digital ecosystem.

No fine can stop what is clearly a core feature of an entrenched corporate culture,

one that personifies a sustained, flagrant contempt for the law and its users.

This long track record shows that fines, however steep, are now just another line item on the balance sheet - the cost of doing business.

As long as the penalty is smaller than the profit from data extraction, the offense remains profitable.

 

The only proportionate response is corporate extinction.

Regulation isn't enough, because those who systematically trample the law don't change with tighter rules,

they must be shut down.

And if the criminal culture starts at the top,

then the top must be held accountable.

Mark Zuckerberg has personally shaped an environment where privacy is not a right to respect but an obstacle to overcome.

 

In criminal law, that's called intent:

the knowing, deliberate, and obvious will to commit the offense.

For all these reasons, it's time to dismantle Meta.

 

Shutting the company down, seizing its assets, and criminally prosecuting its leadership isn't an overreaction or hyperbole, it's the logical response when an organization makes unlawful behavior its growth engine.

Meta isn't "too big to fail," it's "too dangerous to exist"..

Every day it continues to operate, it expands its archive of surveilled lives and normalizes the plundering of digital rights to unspeakable extremes.

 

If we truly believe privacy is a democratic pillar, we must act accordingly:

close the company, put Zuckerberg behind bars, and ban him forever from running any kind of business.