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Are you suggesting regulation could have helped in this situation?Facebook doesn't give a shit about its users. And for that I don't blame them. They're fighters. When they went public, so many assumed they were dead for lacking a mobile presence. Time and again, they've been called out as moribund and time and again they've won. That takes--and develops--thick skin.
That thick skin is now a hard head obstructing their view of the truth. When they drop the ball, it is never their fault. Someone is mis-defining a term, users aren't reading fine print, lawmakers are being mean, et cetera. The onus is put on us, the public, to determine how our rights can be balanced with their business model. As if their business is a given.
If Facebook were liable for repeatedly losing our data, for repeatedly refusing to tell users what it does with what they give them, for constantly lying about what it's doing and going to do, this would stop. Or Facebook would stop.
Neither users nor advertisers can unilaterally disengage. Not in meaningful numbers. Facebook is too powerful. The only solution is for it to be broken up.
Facebook doesn't give a shit about its users. And for that I don't blame them. They're fighters. When they went public, so many assumed they were dead for lacking a mobile presence. Time and again, they've been called out as moribund and time and again they've won. That takes--and develops--thick skin.
That thick skin is now a hard head obstructing their view of the truth. When they drop the ball, it is never their fault. Someone is mis-defining a term, users aren't reading fine print, lawmakers are being mean, et cetera. The onus is put on us, the public, to determine how our rights can be balanced with their business model. As if their business is a given.
If Facebook were liable for repeatedly losing our data, for repeatedly refusing to tell users what it does with what they give them, for constantly lying about what it's doing and going to do, this would stop. Or Facebook would stop.
Neither users nor advertisers can unilaterally disengage. Not in meaningful numbers. Facebook is too powerful. The only solution is for it to be broken up.