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That's a squishy headline. That Facebook is too influential (both directly in terms of the impact of their policies, and indirectly in terms of its power as a m

That's a squishy headline. That Facebook is too influential (both directly in terms of the impact of their policies, and indirectly in terms of its power as a misinformation amplification device) is abundantly clear. Not to say that I have a solution for it. Anything I can think of has its own problems. But, we should accept as a truism that any centralized service with that much sway over multiple hours of hundreds of millions of people's days is "too influential".

Lordarminius 10y ago
> Not to say that I have a solution for it I do. Regulators should shutdown or deny fb many of the privileges it currently has; consumers should minimize or avoid Fb altogether. Its doable, I stopped using Fb regularly two years ago and now I only check my page twice or thrice a year. Fb is not in any way essential for daily living.
- cdubzzz 10y ago
  > I stopped using Fb regularly two years ago and now I only check my page twice or thrice a year. This is not "stopped using". This is "using less frequently". > Regulators should shutdown or deny fb many of the privileges it currently has What privileges do they have?
  - tscs37 10y ago
    >This is not "stopped using". This is "using less frequently". Not OC, but I deleted my Facebook account about 6 or 7 years ago and I'm still quite happy with it. My university course communicates 99% over WhatsApp or Signal or Email/Git. It's certainly doable.
- 75j 10y ago
  Facebook deserves to be sued into oblivion for all the shady "privacy zuckering" that happened early on.