Facebook would fund a Facebook engineer and would therefore have vetted the person in question. Same for other actors, there are ways to support these projects with eg a non-profit organization bankrolled by EU taxes or similar. Imagine if instead of Some Guy being the sole maintainer of critical infrastructure piece X, there was shared responsibility and accountability and less personal attachment.
We can argue about the specific implementation, but to suggest that it’s impossible seems incorrect to me.
We can argue about the specific implementation, but to suggest that it’s impossible seems incorrect to me.