Can King Cnut turn back the tide? If your users rebel against your business model, it's a brave (foolish? short-term?) business decision to fight your users.

Can King Cnut turn back the tide? If your users rebel against your business model, it's a brave (foolish? short-term?) business decision to fight your users. Fine for companies who can only generate value from a user by ads (don't like ads? Goodbye, good riddance), but FB gets immeasurable value from network effects and user data. An interesting strategy, then.