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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 22:08:29 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   > #Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man

   > The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads” (…) were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.

   > The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.

   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 22:08:27 JST Rich Felker

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     @rysiek Aside from Facebook being creeps, I'd forgotten the UK was such a pedo state that still makes kids dress for the sexual gratification of adults... 🤮

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     stony kark (aapis@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 21-Sep-2025 00:19:06 JST stony kark

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     • Mr. Bill

     @rysiek @bmacDonald94 One of the (many) reasons I ended up leaving insta was that one day they decided to start showing me “child gymnast” and “pageant girl” accounts. No amount of “not interested” nor reporting made it go away. I’m 36, no kids, no overlapping interests with kids (and certainly none those ages).

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     Aaron (hosford42@techhub.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Sep-2025 03:44:32 JST Aaron

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     @dalias @rysiek Like the cheerleader uniforms here in the US. I absolutely *do not* find that acceptable garb for my daughters.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Sep-2025 03:44:32 JST Rich Felker

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     • Aaron

     @hosford42 @rysiek Yes and no. I think it's acceptable (tho I don't like it, but hey I don't like team sports either) if it's an activity kids choose when they're old enough to understand how people may look at them. It's mandating it for everyone, especially in a gender discriminatory manner, that's really vile and violating.