I don't blame FB for privacy issues, I blame the govt for being slow to regulate and set boundaries on what can and can't be done. Simple as that.
I killed someone and I blame my parents and teachers for not explicitly telling me not to kill. There is a line.
It's more like one day you suddenly discovered that if you put bullets in a tube and shot it at a high velocity you could kill someone. So you start making and selling bullets and tubes and countless people die. Year after year your sales go up because you are filling a natural void in society. The govt is still used to swords and doesn't understand guns so it takes them 10 or 15 years to regulate the production and use of bullets / guns, which by then many more have died without good cause. When large governments act slow people suffer.
Except you don't discover the bullet and tube thing all of a sudden. You knew what it could do but nonetheless just kept going. What could go wrong, right?
With great power comes great responsibility, I think someone should tell that to Mr.Zuckerberg Having said that I don't believe anyone who builds Facebook does anything different than what they are doing, if I were Zuckerberg with $70billion I'd not listen to AOC's rubbish.
How are these not related? Tech has pushed hard for self-regulation specifically for tech. The industry has also been a part of a larger corporate trend for deregulation (neoliberalism) that’s been going on since the 70s... until maybe a few years ago the whole media narrative around tech was that it was the wonder kid industry that shows how everything is better without regulation.
Our elected representatives don’t know jack shit about technology. I can’t even trust them to regulate themselves
Neither do banks or major investors, but they weigh in all the time.
The only problem with regulation is that when it happens it affects everyone not just FB. Careful what you wish for
Everything on this scale is regulated. The only question is if this regulation is transparent and accountable to the public or handled privately by corporate bodies / government agencies with no public oversight.
The reality is that it’s lobby groups that write the regulations so at the end of the day it gets watered down. A lot of the 2008 crisis reforms like the consumer protection agency were weakened once the balance of power shifted. My other concern is that government regulation doesn’t evolve as fast as technology does whereas banking doesn’t change a whole lot which the exception of creating complicated financial instruments that add very little value to people’s lives.
I blame users for putting up with it. Use a different service.
Do people really think Zuckerberg knew what he was doing? He was filling a void in society that no one even knew existed. Fast growth and rapid change. The government is still asking questions like how does the internet work. Come on. There is no cohesive understanding of the impact of social media, and I think there's a lot less malice intended by FB leadership than people make it out to be.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/tech/twitter-political-ads-2020-election/ Perfect example supporting my point.
Since you posted this comment solo and I think you changed your username I'm not sure what your point was. Can you reitterate?
People love to blame Facebook on their policies but since when do public companies hold the responsibility to dictate law? Another recent example is AOC "slamming" Mark Z on his choice to run political ads. Does anyone really think Mark Z wants the responsibility to dictate what should or shouldn't be allowed legally? The guy started a website to have people talk to their old friends from college, not what it became.
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Yes, because companies should never be held to a standard higher than “what’s legal”.
Companies were forced to self regulate because the government lacked a cohesive structure in regulating social media and tech in general. Surely we agree on this? They don't even know how to adapt antitrust laws for the modern companies.