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* Facebook is not "unregulated" - the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission both regulate it. The latter has taken multiple interv
by clubm8 10y ago
* Facebook is not "unregulated" - the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission both regulate it. The latter has taken multiple interventions, and will probably continue to do so in the future.
* Facebook is not physically addictive - there's a huge difference between addictions like gambling and drug addictions.
* Facebook is not the most important media company in the world - Facebook does not produce news, only disseminate it.
* Facebook is not controlled by one person - it is a publicly traded company.
- devopsproject 10y ago* The SEC isn't going to regulate content, only financials. FTC fought facebook over privacy settings * Experts are beginning to disagree with this http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0030253 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... * Facebook workers recently admitted to filtering content they didn't agree with (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/09/former-facebook-staff-say-conservative-news-was-buried-raising-questions-about-its-political-influence/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/09/fo...) * Zuckerburg controls facebook: http://fortune.com/2016/04/27/zuckerberg-facebook-control/ http://fortune.com/2016/04/27/zuckerberg-facebook-control/